Disturbance during steady and unsteady motion of a two-dimensional pressure distribution

A two-dimensional study of flow due to a moving pressure distribution in su bcritical Froude numbers over finite-depth water was conducted by a lineari zed ideal flow approach. A numerical integration algorithm was developed to evaluate the analytical solution given by Cauchy principal-value integrals . The surface elevation, bottom pressure profiles, and wave resistance were computed as functions of speed and water depth. The calculated results agr eed well with published values.