Surface and Internal Waves due to a Moving Load on a Very Large Floating Structure

Taro Kakinuma, Kei Yamashita and Keisuke Nakayama

Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2012, vol. 2012, 1-14

Abstract:

Interaction of surface/internal water waves with a floating platform is discussed with nonlinearity of fluid motion and flexibility of oscillating structure. The set of governing equations based on a variational principle is applied to a one- or two-layer fluid interacting with a horizontally very large and elastic thin plate floating on the water surface. Calculation results of surface displacements are compared with the existing experimental data, where a tsunami, in terms of a solitary wave, propagates across one-layer water with a floating thin plate. We also simulate surface and internal waves due to a point load, such as an airplane, moving on a very large floating structure in shallow water. The wave height of the surface or internal mode is amplified when the velocity of moving point load is equal to the surface- or internal-mode celerity, respectively.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1155/2012/830530

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