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High frequency limiting virtual-mass coefficients of heaving half-immersed spheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

A. M. J. Davis
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University College London

Abstract

High frequency surface waves are generated by the forced heaving of either two half-immersed spheres in infinite water or by a half-immersed sphere in a hemispherical lake. The virtual-mass coefficients can be found, to leading order, in terms of wave-free limit potentials.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1977 Cambridge University Press

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