The ice‐fishing problem: the fundamental sloshing frequency versus geometry of holes

• Published in: Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
• Main Authors: Kozlov, Vladimir, Kuznetsov, Nikolay
• Other Authors: Swedish Research Council, Wenner-Gren foundation, Russian foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2004
• Subjects: Laplace; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mma.442; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fmma.442; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/mma.442

Abstract We study an eignevalue problem with a spectral parameter in a boundary condition. This problem for the Laplace equation is relevant to sloshing frequencies that describe free oscillations of an inviscid, incompressible, heavy fluid in a half‐space covered by a rigid dock with some apertures (an ice sheet with fishing holes). The dependence of the fundamental eigenvalue on holes' geometry is investigated. We give conditions on a plane region guaranteeing that the fundamental eigenvalue corresponding to this region is larger than the fundamental eigenvalue corresponding to a single circular hole. Examples of regions satisfying these conditions and having the same area as the unit disk are given. New results are also obtained for the problem with a single circular hole. On the other hand, we construct regions for which the fundamental eigenfrequency is larger than the similar frequency for the circular hole of the same area and even as large as one wishes. In the latter examples, the hole regions are either not connected or bounded by a rather complicated curves. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.