The velocity potential for the flow due to point sources distributed arbitrarily along a straight line near to or at a linearized gravitational free surface is obtained in a new form by use of Fourier transforms. Such a method of representing the potential facilitates the determination of its behavior near to the line of singularities; this behavior is derived formally and its physical properties discussed. A brief illustration is given of a method of using this result in o theory for the motion of a slender ship.
Stable determination of an inhomogeneous inclusion by local boundary measurements