A SLENDER BODY APPROACH TO NONLINEAR BOW WAVES

Authors
FONTAINE E COINTE R
Citation
E. Fontaine et R. Cointe, A SLENDER BODY APPROACH TO NONLINEAR BOW WAVES, Philosophical transactions-Royal Society of London. Physical sciences and engineering, 355(1724), 1997, pp. 565-574
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Journal title
Philosophical transactions-Royal Society of London. Physical sciences and engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
09628428
Volume
355
Issue
1724
Year of publication
1997
Pages
565 - 574
Database
ISI
SICI code
0962-8428(1997)355:1724<565:ASBATN>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
The behaviour of the flow near the bow of a slender ship is studied. T he fluid is assumed to be perfect and incompressible and the flow to b e irrotational. The formalism of matched asymptotic expansion is used to provide a consistent perturbation procedure for the simplification of the initial problem. The resulting nonlinear free surface problem d escribing the flow in the inner domain close to the bow is solved nume rically. Examples of solutions are given for the flows around a wedge shaped bow and a prismatic planing hull.