Survey of European Studies on the Far Field Characteristics of a Source Oscillating and Translating Near a Free Surface.

Abstract

The report presents a comprehensive survey of the leading papers written in French, German, and Russian on the formulation, construction, analysis of wave pattern, and evaluation of wave amplitude of the Green's function for a pulsating three-dimensional source which is translating in a straight line below the free surface of an infinite fluid. This important Green's function is of fundamental importance in analyses of ship motions and contains as two special limiting cases the widely used functions for zero frequency (Kelvin wake case) and zero speed (ring wave case). For each topic, the report describes in detail the major approaches used in these papers. The survey covers the period from the late 1940's to the early 1980's. Keywords: Oscillating and translating source; Free surface; Far field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 16, 1988
Accession Number
ADA191395

Entities

People

  • Henry T. Wang

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Classification
  • Complex Variables
  • Construction
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Military Research
  • Phase Velocity
  • Security
  • Surface Properties
  • Three Dimensional
  • Time Domain
  • Two Dimensional
  • Wave Propagation

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design