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Forces on a slender ship advancing near the critical speed in a wide canal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

Chiang C. Mei  and
Hang S. Choi
Chiang C. Mei
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Hang S. Choi
Affiliation:
Department of Naval Architecture, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea
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Abstract

Employing matched asymptotics, we extend the recent theory of Mei (1986) to study the phenomenon of upstream influence by a slender ship moving near the critical speed. For a special class of channel width and ship slenderness, it is shown that the response on the sea surface is essentially one-dimensional with the wave crests perpendicular to the ship's axis. In particular, solitons are radiated upstream. The hydrodynamic pressure on the ship, as well as the total sinkage force, wave resistance and trimming moment are calculated. These forces are functions of time despite the constant speed of the ship. The sinkage and trim for a ship model fixed on an advancing carriage are computed and show rapid variations across the critical speed as in the reported experiments of Graff, Kracht & Weinblum (1964). Because of the assumed slenderness of the ship, this theory does not predict two-dimensional waves in the wake. Nevertheless, there is crude agreement in the time-averaged hydrodynamic forces between theory and experiment.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 179 , June 1987 , pp. 59 - 76
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© 1987 Cambridge University Press

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