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An alternative view on the Bateman-Luke variational principle

Fluid Dynamics 2020-04-22 v4

Abstract

A new derivation of the Bernoulli equation for water waves in three-dimensional rotating and translating coordinate systems is given. An alternative view on the Bateman-Luke variational principle is presented. The variational principle recovers the boundary value problem governing the motion of potential water waves in a container undergoing prescribed rigid-body motion in three dimensions. A mathematical theory is presented for the problem of three-dimensional interactions between potential surface waves and a floating structure with interior potential fluid sloshing. The complete set of equations of motion for the exterior gravity-driven water waves, and the exact nonlinear hydrodynamic equations of motion for the linear momentum and angular momentum of the floating structure containing fluid, are derived from a second variational principle.

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@article{arxiv.1904.08174,
  title  = {An alternative view on the Bateman-Luke variational principle},
  author = {Hamid Alemi Ardakani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08174},
  year   = {2020}
}
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