Diffraction Transfer Matrix
From WikiWaves
Contents |
Introduction
The diffraction transfer matrix relates the incident and scattered potential in Cylindrical Eigenfunction Expansion. The simplest problem is that of a Bottom Mounted Cylinder. Here we present the theory for bodies of arbitrary geometry. While Kagemoto and Yue 1986 presented theory for bodies of arbitrary shape, they did not explain how to actually obtain the diffraction transfer matrices for bodies which did not have an axisymmetric geometry. This step was performed by Goo and Yoshida 1990 who came up with an explicit method to calculate the diffraction transfer matrices for bodies of arbitrary geometry in the case of finite depth. Utilising a Green's function they used the standard method of transforming the single diffraction boundary-value problem to an integral equation for the source strength distribution function over the immersed surface of the body. However, the representation of the scattered potential which is obtained using this method is not automatically given in the cylindrical eigenfunction expansion. To obtain such cylindrical eigenfunction expansions of the potential Goo and Yoshida 1990 used the representation of the free surface finite depth Green's function given by Black 1975 and Fenton 1978. Their representation of the Green's function was based on applying Graf's addition theorem to the eigenfunction representation of the free surface finite depth Green's function given by John 1950. Their representation allowed the scattered potential to be represented in the eigenfunction expansion with the cylindrical coordinate system fixed at the point of the water surface above the mean centre position of the body. The theory is extended to Infinite Depth in Diffraction Transfer Matrix for Infinite Depth
Eigenfunction expansion of the potential
The scattered potential of a body Δj can be expanded in the Cylindrical Eigenfunction Expansion,

with discrete coefficients
, where

The incident potential upon body Δj can be also be expanded in regular cylindrical eigenfunctions,

with discrete coefficients
. In these expansions, Iν
and Kν denote the modified Bessel functions of the first and
second kind, respectively, both of order ν.
Note that the term for m = 0 or
n = 0 corresponds to the propagating modes while the
terms for
(
) correspond to the evanescent modes.
Calculation of the diffraction transfer matrix for bodies of arbitrary geometry
The scattered and incident potential can therefore be related by a diffraction transfer operator acting in the following way,

Before we can apply the interaction theory we require the diffraction
transfer matrices
which relate the incident and the
scattered potential for a body Δj in isolation.
The elements of the diffraction transfer matrix,
,
are the coefficients of the
pth partial wave of the scattered potential due to a single
unit-amplitude incident wave of mode q upon Δj.
It should be noted that, instead of using the source strength distribution function, it is also possible to consider an integral equation for the total potential and calculate the elements of the diffraction transfer matrix from the solution of this integral equation. An outline of this method for water of finite depth is given by Kashiwagi 2000. We will present here a derivation of the diffraction transfer matrices for the case infinite depth based on a solution for the source strength distribution function. However, an equivalent derivation would be possible based on the solution for the total velocity potential.
The Free-Surface Green Function for Finite Depth in cylindrical polar coordinates

given by Black 1975 and Fenton 1978 is used.
The elements of
are therefore given by

where
is the source strength distribution
due to an incident potential of mode q of the form

We assume that we have represented the scattered potential in terms of
the source strength distribution
so that the scattered
potential can be written as

where D is the volume occupied by the water and Γj is the
immersed surface of body Δj. The source strength distribution
function
can be found by solving an
integral equation. The integral equation is described in
Wehausen and Laitone 1960 and in Green Function Solution Method.
Calculation of the coefficients
, using a source strength distribution
The idea is to represent the scattered potential for the body Δj in terms
of a source strength distribution
, as we already did in the previous section

where D is the volume occupied by the water and Γj is the immersed surface of body Δj. As we will use the Cylindrical Eigenfunction Expansion, we express all the variables in a cylindrical coordinate system. The expression of the Free-Surface Green Function has already been expanded in cylindrical coordinates in the previous section, so we obtain the expression of the scattered potential as follow
![\phi_j^\mathrm{S}(r_j,\theta_j,z) = \int\limits_{\Gamma_j} \Big[ \frac{1}{\pi} \sum_{m=0}^{\infty}
\frac{k_m^2+\alpha^2}{H(k_m^2+\alpha^2)-\alpha}\, \cos k_m(z+H) \cos
k_m(c+H) \sum_{\mu=-\infty}^{\infty} K_\mu(k_m r_j) I_\mu(k_m s) \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}\mu
(\theta_j - \varphi)} \Big] \varsigma^j (s,\varphi,c) \mathrm{d}\sigma(s,\varphi,c)](/images/math/b/6/e/b6e8830a9d882735e8379ebf08f3db72.png)
We can rearrange this expression in order to obtain a Cylindrical Eigenfunction Expansion.
![\phi_j^\mathrm{S}(r_j,\theta_j,z) = \sum_{m=0}^{\infty} \frac{\cos k_m(z+H)}{\cos k_m H}
\sum_{\mu=-\infty}^{\infty} \Big[ \frac{1}{\pi} \frac{(k_m^2+\alpha^2) \cos k_m H}{H(k_m^2+\alpha^2)-\alpha}
\int\limits_{\Gamma_j} \cos k_m(c+H) I_\mu(k_m s) \mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i}\mu \varphi} \varsigma^j (s,\varphi,c) \mathrm{d}\sigma(s,\varphi,c)
\Big]
K_\mu(k_m r_j) \mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}\mu \theta_j}](/images/math/b/9/5/b95d4a1d7c678ea7d93fee10936a9c33.png)
An eigenfunction matching method permits us to identify the coefficients of the scattered potential expression

The diffraction transfer matrix of rotated bodies
For a non-axisymmetric body, a rotation about the mean centre position in the (x,y)-plane will result in a different diffraction transfer matrix. We will show how the diffraction transfer matrix of a body rotated by an angle β can be easily calculated from the diffraction transfer matrix of the non-rotated body. The rotation of the body influences the form of the elements of the diffraction transfer matrices in two ways. Firstly, the angular dependence in the integral over the immersed surface of the body is altered and, secondly, the source strength distribution function is different if the body is rotated. However, the source strength distribution function of the rotated body can be obtained by calculating the response of the non-rotated body due to rotated incident potentials. It will be shown that the additional angular dependence can be easily factored out of the elements of the diffraction transfer matrix.
The additional angular dependence caused by the rotation of the incident potential can be factored out of the normal derivative of the incident potential such that

where
is the rotated incident potential.
Since the integral equation for the determination of the source
strength distribution function is linear, the source strength
distribution function due to the rotated incident potential is thus just
given by


This is also the source strength distribution function of the rotated body due to the standard incident modes.
The elements of the diffraction transfer matrix
are
given by equations (B_elem). Keeping in mind that the body is
rotated by the angle β, the elements of the diffraction transfer
matrix of the rotated body are given by

Thus the additional angular dependence caused by the rotation of
the body can be factored out of the elements of the diffraction
transfer matrix. The elements of the diffraction transfer matrix
corresponding to the body rotated by the angle β,
, are given by

