CORRELATION OF WATER LEVEL VARIATIONS WITH WAVE FORCES ON A VERTICAL PILE FOR NONPERIODIC WAVES

摘要

This paper describes the design and application of numerical transforms for the estimation of the field of motion associated with irregular, nonperiodic surface waves from measured serial sequences of water level at a fixed point. The design of these transforms is based upon the linear theory for long-crested waves. The method is applied in the analysis of wave forces exerted upon a vertical circular cylinder, where the measured reaction is considered to be expressible as a linear combination of two independent functions of time. One of these functions depends (nonlinearly) upon the velocity field, the other depends (linearly) upon the acceleration field. The covariance of these functions with the measured reaction allows a direct means of evaluation of the drag and inertial coefficients for the cylinder.