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Wave forces on arrays of floating bodies

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Previous work on the scattering of an incident wave field by an array of fixed vertical cylinders is extended to calculate the added-mass and damping coefficients for an array of floating axisymmetric bodies. The method is based upon a large spacing approximation where diverging waves are replaced by plane waves. It is shown that, given the scattering and radiation properties of a single body, the interaction effects within an array can be calculated both simply and accurately.

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, University Walk, BS8 1TW, Bristol, United Kingdom

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McIver, P. Wave forces on arrays of floating bodies. J Eng Math 18, 273–285 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00042842

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