Surface and Internal Waves due to a Moving Load on a Very Large Floating Structure

Figure 6

Surface displacements 𝜁 at each point in one of the experimental cases by Sakai et al. [3]. The still water depth and incident wave height are 0.2 m and 0.02 m, respectively. The flexural rigidity of thin plate is 450.0 Nm². In the computation, the number of terms for velocity potential, N, is equal to 2, 3, or 4.

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