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Nonlinear water waves generated by an accelerated circular cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2006

H. J. Haussling
Affiliation:
David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20084
R. M. Coleman
Affiliation:
David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20084

Abstract

Numerical solutions for the irrotational flow of an incompressible fluid about a circular cylinder accelerated from rest below a free surface are presented. The usual restriction to linearized free-surface boundary conditions has been avoided. The transient period from the start to a local steady state or to the development of a very steep wave slope is investigated in terms of free-surface profiles and body-surface pressure distributions. Linear and nonlinear results are used to illustrate the transition from deep submergence when nonlinear effects are small to shallow submergence when linearized analysis is inaccurate.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1979 Cambridge University Press

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