Forced capillary-gravity wave motion of two-layer fluid in three-dimensions

Abstract

A class of problems associated with forced capillary-gravity wave motion in a channel are analyzed in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions in a two-layer fluid in both the cases of finite and infinite water depths. The two and three-dimensional Green functions associated with the capillary-gravity wave problems in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions are derived using the fundamental source potentials. Using the two-dimensional Green function along with Green’s second identity, the expansion formulae for the velocity potentials associated with the capillary-gravity wavemaker problems in two-dimensions are obtained. The two-dimensional results are generalized to derive the expansion formulae for the velocity potentials associated with the forced capillary-gravity wave motion in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions in three-dimensions. Certain characteristics of the eigen-system associated with the expansion formulae are derived. The velocity potentials associated with the free oscillation of capillary-gravity waves in a closed basin and semi-infinite open channel in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions are obtained. The utility of the forced motion in a channel is demonstrated by analyzing the capillary-gravity wave reflection by a wall in a channel in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions. Long wave equations associated with capillary-gravity wave motion in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions are derived under shallow water approximation and the associated dispersion relation are obtained. Various expansion formulae and Green functions derived in the present study will be useful for analyzing a large class of physical problems in ocean engineering and mathematical physics.