Abstract
This paper deals with a theoretical method of calculation of the fluid motion, when a sinusoidal plane wave incidents to a permeable breakwater of arbitrary shape at constant water depth and shows that the problem for impermeable breakwater is solved as a special case of this method. The method described here is the extension of the author's method of solution for two-dimensional permeable breakwater by the method of continuation of velocity potentials for two different fluid regions into three-dimensional problems by means of Green functions. Here, the analytical process of calculation is presented and as representative examples, wave height distributions and wave forces around an isolated elliptic- and rectangular breakwater are calculated and compared with experiments in wave channel. The principle of this method is also applied to the analysis of submerged and semi-immersed fixed cylinder and the motions of floating body of arbitrary.
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