Seiche oscillations in a rectangular channel with an abrupt expansion of the cross section

Abstract

The natural frequencies and modes of seiche oscillations in a closed water reservoir consisting of a long narrow channel connected to a wide basin were investigated theoretically and experimentally. Calculations were made using linear shallow-water theory in two-dimensional and one-dimensional formulations. The spectral properties of free-surface oscillations at points lying on the nodal lines of the first four modes of seiche oscillations were studied experimentally. The one-dimensional model adequately predicts lower-mode frequencies, but the data on the positions of the nodal points of seiche oscillations obtained using this model are somewhat different from those obtained experimentally and using the two-dimensional model.