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On the movement of ships in restricted waterways

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

T. Constantine
T. Constantine
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, Manchester University
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Abstract

In this paper some simple theoretical considerations concerning the movement of ships in restricted waterways are discussed, and it is shown that for a ship towed from the bank, or by any external force, there are three distinct speed ranges: subcritical, critical and supercritical. In the subcritical and supercritical ranges, Bernoulli's equation and the continuity equation are satisfied everywhere by a state of steady motion relative to the ship, but in the critical range these laws require that a quantity of fluid is piled up continuously ahead of the ship in the form of a bore. Experimental confirmation is given by means of photographs of model tests.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1960 , pp. 247 - 256
Copyright
© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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