Obliquely Incident Surface Water Waves Against a Curved Wall

Abstract

The problem of obliquely incident surface water waves progressing towards a fixed curved wall, in deep water, is considered in this paper. Assuming linear theory, standard perturbation method along with the application of inverse Fourier sine transform technique is used to obtain the first order correction to the velocity potential that involves an unknown function. The correction to the velocity potential is also found by considering two special shapes of the curved wall.