Abstract
Numerical solutions for a diffracted wave field around a rigid and surface-piercing single circular cylinder, multiple circular cylinders and cylinders of square and rectangular cross-sections, placed vertically in a wave flume, are obtained using the source distribution method. The wave flume confinement effect is introduced by the method of images, considering the fact that the flow field associated with an infinite row of cylinders is equivalent to a single cylinder placed between two parallel vertical walls. The results for a circular cylinder compare well with those of Spring and Monkmeyer [(1975), Interaction of plane waves with a row of cylinders. Proceedings of the 3rd Speciality Conference on Civil Engineering in Oceans, ASCE, University of Delaware, Vol. III, pp. 979–988]. The present method has the advantages that it can be applied to bodies of arbitrary shape and involves less computation than that used by Spring and Monkmeyer [(1975), Interaction of plane waves with a row of cylinders. Proceedings of the 3rd Speciality Conference on Civil Engineering in Oceans, ASCE, University of Delaware, Vol. III, pp. 979–988], which is applicable only to circular cylinders.
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