Wake angle for surface gravity waves on a finite depth fluid

DOI10.1063/1.4921918MaRDI QIDQ3456929zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney

Publication date 10 December 2015

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04336

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10)

Abstract: Linear water wave theory suggests that wave patterns caused by a steadily moving disturbance are contained within a wedge whose half-angle depends on the depth-based Froude number $F_H$. For the problem of flow past an axisymmetric pressure distribution in a finite-depth channel, we report on the apparent angle of the wake, which is the angle of maximum peaks. For moderately deep channels, the dependence of the apparent wake angle on the Froude number is very different to the wedge angle, and varies smoothly as $F_H$ passes through the critical value $F_H=1$. For shallow water, the two angles tend to follow each other more closely, which leads to very large apparent wake angles for certain regimes.

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