Research Article

Nonlinear Hydroelastic Interaction among a Floating Elastic Plate, Water Waves, and Exponential Shear Currents

Figure 9

The influence of the opposing shear currents on the horizontal velocity profile of propagating periodic waves for different vorticity parameter by means of . Solid line: ; dashed line: ; dash dot line: ; long dash line: ; dash dot dot: .
(a) Horizontal velocity near the crest
(b) Horizontal velocity near the trough