Department of Civil Engineering,Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
Thee enclosed basin has certain natural frequencies of seiche, depending on the geometry of
the water boundaries and the bathymetry of water depths. Therefore, the variation in the water
surface at a point becomes irregular, as caused by the combination of several natural frequencies,
which may be considered as the superposition of sinusoidal frequency components of di erent
amplitude. This paper is mainly concerned with the motion of an incompressible irrotational
uid
in a closed rectangular basin with internal impervious barriers. An analytical solution is presented
for predicting the characteristic of generated waves in these types of basin. The equations of free
water surface oscillations and its boundary conditions are reduced to a system of linear equations,
which is solved by applying the small amplitude water wave theory. The
ow potential, wave
amplitude,
ow patterns and the natural period of waves generated in the basin with impervious
internal barriers are found, based on the basin geometry. It is shown that the natural period of
the basin is strongly dependent on the location of the barriers and the size of the barrier opening.
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