简介：Theproblemofwaterwavescatteringbyathinverticalelasticplatesubmergedinuniformfinitedepthwaterisinvestigatedhere.TheboundaryconditionontheelasticplateisderivedfromtheBernoulli-Eulerequationofmotionsatisfiedbytheplate.UsingtheGreen’sfunctiontechnique,fromthisboundarycondition,thenormalvelocityoftheplateisexpressedintermsofthedifferencebetweenthevelocitypotentials(unknown)acrosstheplate.Thetwoendsoftheplateareeitherclampedorfree.Thereflectionandtransmissioncoefficientsareobtainedintermsoftheintegrals’involvingcombinationsoftheunknownvelocitypotentialonthetwosidesoftheplate,whichsatisfythreesimultaneousintegralequationsandaresolvednumerically.Thesecoefficientsarecomputednumericallyforvariousvaluesofdifferentparametersanddepictedgraphicallyagainstthewavenumberinanumberoffigures.