Flow Structure Near a Ship Bow

Abstract

Includes reports and reprints on the following topics: Small-gap flows; A new development in the theory of oscillatory and translating slender ships; Ship generated solitons; Some soliton calculations; A comparative evaluation of numerical methods in free-surface hydrodynamics; Simulation of the viscous flow over a cylinder in a wave field; and waves caused by a moving disturbance in a shallow channel of finite width. Keywords: Water waves; Two dimensional flow; Bow waves; Aerodynamics; Ship motion; Mathematical models; Green Naghdi theory of fluid sheets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA191146

Entities

People

  • E. O. Tuck
  • Mark Grosenbaugh
  • R. C. Ertekin
  • Ronald W. Yeung
  • W. C. Webster

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Capillary Waves
  • Civil Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluid Flow
  • Frequency
  • Froude Number
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Measurement
  • Naval Architecture
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Power Spectra
  • Reynolds Number
  • Surface Tension
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.