On the short surface waves due to a half-immersed circular cylinder oscillating on water of infinite depth

Abstract

In this paper we examine two-dimensional short surface waves in water of infinite depth produced by various modes of oscillation of a half-immersed circular cylinder. The usual method, which depends on finding the potential on the cylinder from an integral equation with a small kernel, is here replaced by one that uses instead the known value of the potential for incident waves in the presence of the fixed cylinder. Thus we are able to determine three-term asymptotic expansions for both the heaving and the swaying modes that improve on earlier forms, and, for the heaving mode, to refine the interpolation with previous numerical calculations and confirm in principle the result obtained elsewhere by a plausible argument. The rolling mode also can actually be included by superposition of the heaving and swaying modes for this cylinder.