Paper 4, Section II, D
Part IB, 2009
An inviscid incompressible fluid occupies a rectangular tank with vertical sides at and and a horizontal bottom at . The undisturbed free surface is at .
(i) Write down the equations and boundary conditions governing small amplitude free oscillations of the fluid, neglecting surface tension, and show that the frequencies of such oscillations are given by
for non-negative integers , which cannot both be zero.
(ii) The free surface is now acted on by a small external pressure
where . Calculate the corresponding oscillation of the free surface when is not equal to the quantity given by (1).
Why does your solution break down as