ANALYSIS ON THE REFLECTION OF SURFACE WATER WAVES BY A BENDED PLATE IN INFINITE DEPTH WATER

The problem in the reflection of surface water waves that progress obliquely towards a bended plate, in infinite depth water, is considered with the help of linear theory. Here a simplified method is applied essentially on the perturbation technique, together with the application of the expansion of Havelock [1] of the potential of the water waves to address the problem. Considering two particular shapes of the bended plate, the corrections to the velocity potential and reflection coefficient of first order are enumerated.