Inthispaper,theprincipleofmirrorimageisusedtotransformtheproblemofwavediffractionfromacircularcylinderinfrontoforthogonalverticalwallsintotheproblemofdiffractionoffoursymmetricincidentwavesfromfoursymmetricallyarrangedcircularcylinders,andthentheeigenfunctionexpansionofvelocitypotentialandGrafsadditiontheoremareusedtogivetheanalyticalsolutiontothewavediffractionproblem.Therelationofthetotalwaveforceoncylindertothedistancebetweenthecylinderandorthogonalverticalwallsandtheincidenceangleofwaveisalsostudiedbynumericalcomputation.