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Surface waves on deep water in the presence of a submerged circular cylinder. II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. Ursell
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsThe UniversityManchester

Abstract

In the first part of this paper a method was given for constructing a wave potential when the normal velocity is a prescribed function of the angular variable on a submerged circular cylinder. It was shown that the method breaks down for values of the parameters Ka and Kf for which a certain infinite determinant vanishes. The vanishing of this determinant implies the existence of a non-trivial velocity potential, such that the normal velocity vanishes on the cylinder and both velocity components vanish at infinity. In this part of the paper it is shown that there can be no non-trivial solution of this kind; in other words the infinite determinant does not vanish. In the absence of a general uniqueness theory for surface waves it seems worth while to establish this particular result.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1950

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(1)Ursell, F.Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 46 (1950), 141–52.CrossRefGoogle Scholar