Applicability of the method of fundamental solutions to interaction of fully nonlinear water waves with a semi-infinite floating ice plate

In this research effort, a meshless numerical model was developed to study the hydroelastic interaction of an incident wave with a semi-infinite horizontal floating plate. It is assumed that the fluid is homogenous, inviscid and incompressible. Fundamental solution of the governing Laplace equation is considered to be radial basis functions. In this method, only a few boundary points are located on the boundary. Moreover, there are a few source points that are located outside the computational domain. Two additional source points are introduced to deal with the plate's edge conditions. The problem is solved using collocations at only a few boundary points. When density and thickness of the plate are reduced to zero, good agreements with other numerical works are observed.

Research Highlights
► We model interaction of incident wave with a semi-infinite floating ice plate.
► We show the vertical displacements of water free surface and ice in a wave flume.
► We use MFS meshless method to investigate the wave-plate interaction problem.
► Increasing ice thickness or density will increase the level of water free surface.
► Increasing ice thickness or density will decrease the ice vertical displacements.