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Maureen McIver
Maureen
McIver
Diffraction of water waves by a moored, horizontal, flat plate
Loughborough University
2013
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Mechanical Engineering
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
2013-02-26 14:19:50
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Diffraction_of_water_waves_by_a_moored_horizontal_flat_plate/9376706
A Norwegian research group has investigated the feasibility of constructing a system of underwater structures
which would act like a lens and focus water waves prior to harnessing their energy. In the present work we
consider modelling one of these structures by a horizontal, flat plate which is moored to the seabed. The water is
assumed to be incompressible and inviscid and two-dimensional, linear, irrotational theory is used. Solutions to
the scattering and radiation potentials are obtained by the method of matched eigenfunction expansions.
Comparisons are made with various approximate solutions and results are presented illustrating the effect of
varying the mooring stiffness in t~e cables on both the responses of the plate and the far-field wave motion.