Prediction of Extreme Ship Motions in Irregular Waves

The occurrence of indirectly excited large amplitude roll motions of ships is investigated under the influence of a time-varying righting lever curve in waves. In order to account for the irregular character of ocean waves appropriately, the ship motions are described within the framework of nonlinear dynamics and stochastic process theory. The analysis of roll motions in regular waves provides a qualitative understanding of the occurrence of unpredictable large amplitude roll motions as observed in ocean waves. However, quantitative information on the rolling behavior in irregular waves may be retrieved only from a probabilistic analysis. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Instability of power-law fluid flows down an incline subjected to wind stress

In this paper we investigate the effect of a prescribed superficial shear stress on the generation and structure of roll waves developing from infinitesimal disturbances on the surface of a power-law fluid layer flowing down an incline. The unsteady equations of motion are depth integrated according to the von Kármán momentum integral method to obtain a non-homogeneous system of nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws governing the average flow rate and the thickness of the fluid layer. By conducting a linear stability analysis we obtain an analytical formula for the critical conditions for the onset of instability of a uniform and steady flow in terms of the prescribed surface shear stress. A nonlinear analysis is performed by numerically calculating the nonlinear evolution of a perturbed flow. The calculation is carried out using a high-resolution finite volume scheme. The source term is handled by implementing the quasi-steady wave propagation algorithm. Conclusions are drawn regarding the effect of the applied surface shear stress parameter and flow conditions on the development and characteristics of the roll waves arising from the instability. For a Newtonian flow subjected to a prescribed superficial shear stress, using an analytical theory, we show that the nonlinear governing equations do not admit roll waves solutions under conditions when the uniform and steady flow is linearly stable. For the case of a general power-law fluid flow with zero shear stress applied at the surface, the analytical investigation leads to a procedure for calculating the characteristics of a roll waves flow. These results are compared with those yielded by the numerical procedure.     

The structure of roll waves in two-layer flows

The structure of non-linear waves in a two-layer flow of an incompressible fluid in extended channels is investigated. Periodic discontinuous solutions, describing roll waves of finite amplitude, are constructred for the equations of two-layer shallow water. “Anomalous” waves of limited amplitude are found which correspond to the transition from stratified to slug flow conditions.     

Linear Stability of Viscous Roll Waves

The purpose of this paper is to study the linear stability of “viscous” roll waves. These are periodic continuous traveling waves solutions of viscous perturbations of inhomogeneous hyperbolic systems. We first study the scalar case for the Burgers equation and for an inhomogeneous hyperbolic equation. Then we analyze the stability of roll waves, solutions of the shallow water equations with a real viscosity. In both cases, we first analyze the Evans function and compute an asymptotic expansion in the low frequency regime. Under a strong spectral stability condition, we prove the linear stability of viscous roll waves, solutions of the Saint Venant equations, with pointwise estimates on the Green functions.     

Dynamic stability and bifurcation in a bundle flow

In roll draft operation mechanisms, the behavior of floating fibers is known to cause the thickness variation in output fiber bundles. Despite the significance of this phenomenon, few studies have sought to explain the underlying mechanism theoretically. We analyzed the dynamic characteristics of bundle flow in roll draft systems, based on a model of bundle flow. By applying both linear stability and phase plane analyses, we investigated an occurrence of draft waves. Our results suggest that the principles of linear stability can be applied to analyze bundle flow dynamics. The nonlinearity of bundle flow, however, reveals that the stable fixed point disappears when draft ratio changes, which in turn implies that the topological structure of the phase portrait changes as the process parameter is varied: a bifurcation property. As the process parameter increases above certain critical values, fixed points are destroyed and oscillations within the limit cycle occur. Also the system oscillates at a critical draw ratio harmonically, indicating the onset of a Hopf bifurcation, which corresponds to the draft wave. The phase portrait converges to a shell-shaped curve if the process parameter increases further. The results of this study also show that there is a specific draft ratio below which flow is always stable.     

Phase Resonances of the NLS Rogue Wave Recurrence in the Quasisymmetric Case

Based on experimental observations of the recurrence of anomalous waves in water and nonlinear optics, we investigate the theory of anomalous waves for initial data almost satisfying the symmetry conditions in the experiment. We also derive useful formulas, in particular, describing the phase resonance in the recurrence, which can be compared with both the currently available experimental data and the experimental data to be obtained in the near future.     

Anomalous waves as an object of statistical topography: Problem statement

Based on ideas of statistical topography, we analyze the boundary-value problem of the appearance of anomalous large waves (rogue waves) on the sea surface. The boundary condition for the sea surface is regarded as a closed stochastic quasilinear equation in the kinematic approximation. We obtain the stochastic Liouville equation, which underlies the derivation of an equation describing the joint probability density of fields of sea surface displacement and its gradient. We formulate the statistical problem with the stochastic topographic inhomogeneities of the sea bottom taken into account. It describes diffusion in the phase space, and its solution must answer the question whether information about the existence of anomalous large waves is contained in the quasilinear equation under consideration.     

Disturbance and repair of solitary waves in blood vessels with aneurysm

This paper analyzes the effects of a local increase of radius followed by local variation of the thickness or rigidity of an elastic tube on the behavior of solitary waves. The basic equations for the analysis is a set of Boussinesq-type equations derived from the flow equations in elastic tubes. It is found that the increase in rigidity and thickness reduces the effects of the tube local enlargement on the amplitude of waves. Attention is paid to the aneurysmal affection of blood vessels where there is an increase in rigidity due to calcification or an increase of thickness due to thromboses. It thus comes that those effects contribute to the regeneration of blood waves and can merge the effects of the disease.     

自由表面与粘性尾迹的相互作用

解析地研究了无限深不可压粘性流体中运动物体产生层流尾迹与自由表面波的相互作用．以定常的Oseen方程模拟受扰流动,对于小振幅自由表面波则采用线性化的运动学和动力学边界条件．在数学描述上,运动物体以Oseen极子模拟,受扰流场分解成表述粘性尾迹的无界奇异Oseen流和描述自由面效应的有界正则Oseen流之和．通过积分变换法,得到自由表面波的精确解．借助Lighthill的两步格式,导出了自由面波高带有附加校正项的渐近解．所得对称解显示了波动的振幅因粘性和潜深的存在而呈指数衰减．     

Resonant Generation of Finite-Amplitude Waves by Flow Past Topography on a β-Plane

The forced Korteweg-de Vries (fKdV) equation is the generic equation for resonant flow past an obstacle. However, for flow past topography on a β-plane, the case when the upstream flow is uniform is anomalous in that there is no quadratic nonlinear term in the fKdV equation. Here we show that in this important case an alternative theory is required and obtain a new evolution equation, which has some similarities to the fKdV equation with two significant differences. These are that a small-amplitude topography now produces finite-amplitude waves and the flow response is limited by a wave breakdown characterized by an incipient flow reversal. Various numerical solutions are described.     

Mathematical model for coupled roll and yaw motions of a floating body in regular waves under resonant and non-resonant conditions

The prediction of resonance is very important with respect to the vessels stability in the early stages of design. In this paper, an efficient modeling approach is presented to determine coupled roll and yaw motions of a symmetric and slender floating body when the influences of small amplitude regular waves are dominant. The angular motions described in time domain by considering all internal and external forces are transformed into frequency domain to obtain motion characteristics. We adopt a semi-analytical treatment to obtain roll and yaw motions and derive system instability due to roll resonance. To compute hydrodynamic forces, we employ strip theory method where frequency dependent sectional added-mass, damping and restoring coefficients are derived from the Frank’s close-fit curve. Numerical experiments carried out for a vessel of mass 19,190 ton under the action of wave of frequencies 0.56 and 0.76 rad/s with zero and non-zero initial conditions are reported and the effect of various parameters on system stability is investigated. Model results indicate that damping factor (ς) plays a pivotal role when wave encountering frequency (ω) and undamped natural frequency (β) are nearly equal. The essence of this study lies in the efficient modeling technique to evaluate damping factor and critical encountering frequency regime for a given ship particulars when experimentally derived resonance zone is absent.     

The effect of surface topography on weakly nonlinear roll waves

The propagation of short waves in turbulent single layer flows forming on inclined surfaces has received considerable interest in the past. It is well known that such flows on flat surfaces are unstable if the Froude number of the unperturbed uniform state exceeds a critical value. In the initial linear stage disturbances grow exponentially with propagation distance but it has been shown that weakly nonlinear effects may limit the maximum wave amplitude under strictly periodic conditions leading in turn to a train of permanent roll waves. The present study investigates how the flow behaviour is affected if the slope of the bounding surface is no longer constant but changing slowly in the streamwise direction. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Control of the transition between regular and mach reflection of shock waves

A control problem was considered that makes it possible to switch the flow between stationary Mach and regular reflection of shock waves within the dual solution domain. The sensitivity of the flow was computed by solving adjoint equations. A control disturbance was sought by applying gradient optimization methods. According to the computational results, the transition from regular to Mach reflection can be executed by raising the temperature. The transition from Mach to regular reflection can be achieved by lowering the temperature at moderate Mach numbers and is impossible at large numbers. The reliability of the numerical results was confirmed by verifying them with the help of a posteriori analysis.     

Heat conduction in nanofluids

We show that macroscale heat conduction in nanofluids is of a dual-phase-lagging type rather than the Fourier type. This leads to models for effective thermal capacity, conductivity and diffusivity of nanofluids and reveals even more anomalous thermal behavior of nanofluids than those reported in the literature. Due to the coupled conduction of the two phases, thermal waves and possibly resonance may appear in nanofluid heat conduction. Such waves and resonance are responsible for the extraordinary conductivity enhancement. The analysis and result are also valid for heat conduction in two-phase systems.     

All-angle-negative-refraction and ultra-refraction for liquid surface waves in 2D phononic crystals

We analyse transport properties of linear liquid waves propagating within arrays of immersed rigid circular cylindrical obstacles fixed to a rough bottom. A comparison between Multipole and Finite Element methods is drawn in the case of Robin boundary conditions coupled with Floquet-Bloch boundary conditions. We find that the first band is concave yet nearly flat (associated waves of small negative group velocity) and it displays a cut-off (zero-frequency stop band associated with a singular perturbation). Thanks to this anomalous dispersion in such fluid filled structures, we achieve both ultra-refraction and negative refraction for waves propagating at their surface. Potential applications lie in a omnidirective ‘water antenna’ and a convergent flat ‘water lens’. The latter one is demonstrated experimentally.     

Kinematic-wave analysis of particle settling in tube centrifuges

The kinematic-wave theory of particle settling in tube centrifuges is subject to controversy. G. Anestis and W. Schneider [1] made the common assumption that the flow in a rotating tube of large length/diameter ratio can be treated in one-dimensional approximation. Their results have been found in agreement with measurements [2], [3]. However, M. Ungarish [4] performed an analysis of the two-dimensional settling process in the limit of vanishing particle concentration and obtained results that are not in accord with the one-dimensional flow approximation, irrespective of the length/diameter ratio. It is the aim of the present investigation to gain a better understanding of the process. According to this analysis, quasi-one-dimensional kinematic waves are embedded in a two-dimensional bulk flow that is governed by the boundary conditions at the walls of the tube. The results are compared with those of the one-dimensional flow approximation. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Stoßwellenausbreitung in Rohrverzweigungen

Summary The interaction of a shock wave with the junction of a straight duct having a side branch is considered. The paper checks the validity of three hypotheses. The first and second one calculate the shock waves after the junctions only by a geometrical consideration. A comparison with experimental values shows only an unsatisfactory result for weak shock waves. The third theory assumes that the pressure drop across the junction, in the quasi-steady flow which takes place after the incident shock wave, is the same as in steady flow tests. The pressure drops were measured for different junctions and the results of the calculation were compared with experimental values from a shock tube, both for circular and rectangular channels. A good agreement was obtained.     

Stokes waves with constant vorticity: I. Numerical computation

Periodic traveling waves are numerically computed in a constant vorticity flow subject to the force of gravity. The Stokes wave problem is formulated via a conformal mapping as a nonlinear pseudodifferential equation, involving a periodic Hilbert transform for a strip, and solved by the Newton‐GMRES method. For strong positive vorticity, in the finite or infinite depth, overhanging profiles are found as the amplitude increases and tend to a touching wave, whose surface contacts itself at the trough line, enclosing an air bubble; numerical solutions become unphysical as the amplitude increases further and make a gap in the wave speed versus amplitude plane; another touching wave takes over and physical solutions follow along the fold in the wave speed versus amplitude plane until they ultimately tend to an extreme wave, which exhibits a corner at the crest. Touching waves connected to zero amplitude are found to approach the limiting Crapper wave as the strength of positive vorticity increases unboundedly, while touching waves connected to the extreme waves approach the rigid body rotation of a fluid disk.     

The Propagation of Sound in Cylindrical Ducts with Mean Flow and Bulk-reacting Lining II. Bifurcated Ducts

The transmission and reflexion of sound in a bifurcated coaxialcylindrical duct is investigated. The inner tube carries a uniformflow and consists of two semi-infinite tubes: one is hard andthe other is perforated. The space between the coaxial cylindersis filled with a sound-absorbing material. Transmission andreflexion matrices are calculated for the causal solution. Itis found that causality and the boundary conditions requirean instability wave when the perforated tube is downstream itsjunction to the hard tube. When the perforate is situated upstreamthe junction the analysis permits incident waves that are unstable.This is important for applications to multiple reflexions. Itfollows from the analysis that, in addition to giving rise tothe instability wave, the gas flow has several other importanteffects on the acoustic properties of the junction.     

Singularities Produced by the Reflection and Interaction of Two Progressing Waves

We give an example to show that there will be anomalous singularities on the forward half light cone issuing from the reflection point after the reflection at the boundary of two progressing waves carrying singularities. It perfects the results of [1].