Standing wave pressures on walls

The pressure variations exerted on a vertical wall in a constant water dept h are computed from the calculation of a short-crested wave system using th e Fourier series approximation method. The numerical results have been comp ared with experimental results from literature. The comparison with the lin ear solution of the present theory gives a good estimate for the variation of dynamic pressures. The double peak formation in the experimental results for pressure curves at still water level and at the bottom for the steeper waves was not observed for the linear case. In the case of surface elevati on, deviations with the third order perturbation results are observed for h igher waves. In addition, deviations are also observed within the elevation results for higher waves. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserv ed.