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| = Introduction =
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| The floating elastic plate is one of the best studied problems in hydroelasticity. It can be used to model a range of
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| physical structures such as a floating break water, an ice floe or a [[VLFS]]). The equations of motion were formulated
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| more than 100 years ago and a discussion of the problem appears in [[Stoker_1957a|Stoker 1957]]. The problem can
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| be divided into the two and three dimensional formulations which are closely related.
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| = Two Dimensional Problem =
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| = Equations of Motion =
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| The equation for a elastic plate which is governed by Kirkoffs equation is given
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| by the following
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| <math>D\frac{\partial^4 \eta}{\partial x^4} + \rho_i h \frac{\partial^2 \eta}{\partial t^2} = P</math>
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| where <math>D</math> is the flexural rigidity, <math>\rho_i</math> is the density of the plate,
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| <math>h</math> is the thickness of the plate (assumed constant), <math> P</math> is the pressure
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| and <math>\eta</math> is the plate displacement.
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| The pressure is given by the linearised Bernouilli equation at the wetted surface (assuming zero
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| pressure at the surface), i.e.
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| <math>P = \rho g \phi + \rho \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t}</math>
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| where <math>\rho</math> is the water density and <math>g</math> is gravity, and <math>\phi</math>
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| is the velocity potential. The velocity potential is governed by Laplace's equation through out
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| the fluid domain subject to the
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| [[Frequency Domain Problem]]
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