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Multiple scattering in arrays of axisymmetric wave-energy devices. Part 1. A matrix method using a plane-wave approximation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

M. J. Simon
M. J. Simon
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Department of Mathematics, The University, Manchester
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Abstract

A technique is developed to model the multiple scattering of surface waves in an array of axisymmetric wave-energy devices. The matrix equation which results is inverted to yield the exciting forces, the added-damping and added-mass matrices, the optimal power absorption and the optimal device responses. The matrix method is also used on the previously unstudied problem of an unconstrained array. Finite-size effects of devices are shown to be important in producing phase-shifts, which shift the uncon- strained frequency response, but leave the opt,imal energy absorption virtually unchanged.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 120 , July 1982 , pp. 1 - 25
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© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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