Effects of viscosity on ship waves
- 1 September 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 23 (03), 471-479
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112065001490
Abstract
The effect of viscosity on the trailing-wave system well downstream of a uniformly moving surface disturbance is determined. Solutions are obtained by series expansions in inverse powers of a Reynolds number and coefficients in the viscous exponential decay-factor found. It is seen that the diverging wave pattern is much more heavily damped than the transverse waves.Keywords
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