The free-surface waves and the flow field due to a body moving on the surfaceof an incompressible viscous fluid of infinite depth were studied analytically. The floating bodywas modeled as a normal point pressure on t...The free-surface waves and the flow field due to a body moving on the surfaceof an incompressible viscous fluid of infinite depth were studied analytically. The floating bodywas modeled as a normal point pressure on the free surface. Based on the Oseen approximation forgoverning equations and the linearity assumption for boundary conditions, the exact solutions inintegral form for the free-surface elevation, the velocities and the pressure were given. Byemploying Lighthill's two-stage scheme, the asymptotic representations in far field for largeReynolds numbers were derived explicitly. The effect of viscosity on the wave profiles was expressedby an exponential decay factor, which removes the singular behavior predicted by the potentialtheory.展开更多
文摘The free-surface waves and the flow field due to a body moving on the surfaceof an incompressible viscous fluid of infinite depth were studied analytically. The floating bodywas modeled as a normal point pressure on the free surface. Based on the Oseen approximation forgoverning equations and the linearity assumption for boundary conditions, the exact solutions inintegral form for the free-surface elevation, the velocities and the pressure were given. Byemploying Lighthill's two-stage scheme, the asymptotic representations in far field for largeReynolds numbers were derived explicitly. The effect of viscosity on the wave profiles was expressedby an exponential decay factor, which removes the singular behavior predicted by the potentialtheory.
