A boundary integrodifferential equation arising from the linearized theory of water waves

The prototype problem of the linearized irrotational gravity-capillarity water waves due to a Havelock doublet in a uniform planar stream is solved via a layer ansatz and a boundary integral formulation. As an effect of surface tension, two distinct flow regimes arise, separated by a critical speed where a resonance occurs. The transcirtical flow is described by including the viscous vorticity diffusion at the free boundary.

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Sommario Si risolve, nell' ambito di una formulazione integrale al contorno, il problema linearizzato delle onde di gravità irrotazionali generate da un dipolo di Havelock in presenza di tensione superficiale. Si hanno due distinti regimi di flusso separati da una velocità critica. Il regime transcritico, in cui si ha un fenomeno di risonanza, viene descritto tenendo conto della presenza di uno strato limite viscoso sulla frontiera libera.

     

Head-on collision between two hydroelastic solitary waves with Plotnikov-Toland's plate model

Head-on collision between two hydroelastic solitary waves propagating at the surface of an incompressible and ideal fluid covered by a thin ice sheet is analytically studied by means of a singular perturbation method. The ice sheet is represented by the Plotnikov-Toland model with the help of the special Cosserat theory of hyperelastic shells and the Kirchhoff-Love plate theory,which yields the nonlinear and conservative expression for the bending forces. The shallow water assumption is taken for the fluid motion with the Boussinesq approximation. The resulting governing equations are solved asymptotically with the aid of the Poincaré-Lighthill-Kuo method,and the solutions up to the third order are explicitly presented. It is observed that solitary waves after collision do not change their shapes and amplitudes. The wave profile is symmetric before collision, and it becomes, after collision, unsymmetric and titled backward in the direction of wave propagation. The wave profile significantly reduces due to greater impacts of elastic plate and surface tension. A graphical comparison is presented with published results, and the graphical comparison between linear and nonlinear elastic plate models is also shown as a special case of our study.     

Second-order hydroelastic analysis of a floating plate in multidirectional irregular waves

Based on an analysis of second-order hydrodynamic forces induced by coupling of first-order wave potentials, second-order hydroelastic equations are established and solved in the frequency domain. The responses of a very large floating structure in multidirectional irregular waves are studied. The characteristics of the difference and sum frequency coordinates are discussed in detail; peaks can be found at the difference and sum frequencies close to the wet resonant frequencies of each mode. We present and analyze the maximum vertical displacement of different points as well as the time history of the vertical displacements of selected points. The differences of the combined (the summation of the linear and non-linear responses) and linear displacements of the selected points are calculated. Our results demonstrate that non-linear fluid forces influence the total responses of the referenced floating structure.     

Dynamic hydroelastic response of a surface-piercing strut in waves and ventilated flows

The objective of this work is to study the effects of waves and ventilation on the dynamic hydroelastic response of a surface-piercing strut via towing tank studies. The experimental studies are especially designed to test the hypothesis that flow conditions affect the modal response and hence structural dynamics, which in turn affect the hydrodynamic response through fluid–structure interaction, particularly near regions of mode localization such as frequency coalescence. The results showed that the modal frequencies decrease with increasing submergence, and are higher in fully ventilated flow compared to fully wetted flow. Regular, non-breaking waves lead to simple harmonic oscillations about the mean values at the encountered wave frequency for the slowly varying component of the hydrodynamic loads and tip deformations. The spectral response of the fast fluctuating component of the hydrodynamic loads and tip deformations showed peaks at the modal frequencies and vortex shedding frequencies (off the blunt trailing edge of the strut). Significant dynamic load amplifications and flow-induced vibrations were observed when the second and third modal frequencies coalesced at a submerged aspect ratio of two in fully wetted flow. In fully ventilated flow, the second and third modes separated enough to result in drastically reduced dynamic load fluctuations and flow-induced vibrations. When the submergence decreased, the separation between the modal frequencies increased, which avoided frequency coalescence in both fully wetted and fully ventilated flows. The results suggest that for cases where the wave encountered frequency is well separated from the modal frequencies, the spectral response of the fast fluctuating component of the hydrodynamic loads and tip deformations are governed by the structural response, and not by wave conditions.     

Transition bifurcation branches in non-linear water waves

We are concerned with the numerical computation of progressive free surface gravity waves on a horizontal bed. They are regarded as families of bifurcation branches (λ,A)_Q of constant discharge Q. Numerically we determine two transition values Q₁ and Q₂ with corresponding transition bifurcation branches that classify waves into three disjoint branch sets B₁, B₂ and B₃. Their members are families of waves (λ,A)_Q satisfying the conditions 0<Q² ?Q, Q <Q² ?Q and Q <Q² <B/27, respectively. The bifurcation patterns are analysed in some detail from the computed bifurcation diagram, which shows that in B₁ bifurcation is to the left and the amplitude A increases as the wavelength λ decreases; in B₂ bifurcation is to the right and turning points are observed nearly at breaking point. In B₃ bifurcation is to the right and A increases monotonically with λ.     

Nonlinear progressive waves in elastic materials

Summary Progressive harmonic waves in nonlinear elastic materials are generally considered as small disturbances superposed on a finite deformation. In this first approximation they are governed by essentially the same laws as in linear elasticity. In the present paper a second-order theory is developed which allows for nonlinear effects on progressive waves in a finitely deformed elastic material. The problem is investigated by means of a perturbation procedure using intrinsically two time scales. After providing the kinematical prerequisites a transport equation is derived which governs the distortion of the wave profile. A closedform solution is obtained for the case of a plane wave in a homogeneous medium. The influence of nonlinearity is closely related to the evolution of acceleration waves.

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Zusammenfassung Fortschreitende harmonische Wellen in nichtlinearen elastischen Stoffen werden meist als kleine Störungen betrachtet, die einer endlichen Verformung überlagert sind. In dieser ersten Näherung genügen sie im wesentlichen den gleichen Gesetzen wie in der linearen Elastizitätstheorie. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine Theorie zweiter Ordnung entwickelt, die auch nichtlineare Effekte bei fortschreitenden Wellen in einem endlich verformten elastischen Material berücksichtigt. Das Problem wird mit Hilfe einer Störungsmethode behandelt, welche implizit zwei verschiedene Zeitmaßstäbe zuläßt. Nach Bereitstellung der kinematischen Hilfsmittel wird eine Transportgleichung hergeleitet, welche die Verzerrung des Wellenprofils beschreibt. Für ebene Wellen in einem homogenen Medium wird eine geschlossene Lösung angegeben. Der Einfluß der Nichtlinearität zeigt eine enge Verwandtschaft zur zeitlichen Entwicklung von Beschleunigungswellen.

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Mass transport in progressive water waves

Summary An experimental investigation evidenciated drift profiles in agreement with those predicted by the theory of progressive waves in viscous fluid.

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Sommario Si presenta una conferma sperimentale delle previsioni relative alle velocità di trasporto per le onde liquide progressive.

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Research sponsored by the ENEL, Ente Nazionale per l'Energia Elettrica.     

Steady bifurcation and solitary waves of the perturbed PHI-four equation

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this paper, steady bifurcation and solitary waves of the perturbed PHI-four equation are investigated. Steady bifurcation, bistability and bi-instability are analyzed by...     

Numerical and asymptotic study of the two-dimensional problem of the hydroelastic behavior of a floating plate in waves

The problem of the behavior of a floating elastic plate in waves is solved numerically. The normal mode method is used. For a fluid of finite depth, the hydrodynamic coefficients are obtained in explicit form. Numerical results are compared with experimental data for the stress distribution in the plate and also with numerical results of other authors. The results are in good agreement for not very short waves. For incident waves whose wavelength is comparable with the length of the plate, a long-wave approximation of the solution is proposed. Within the framework of this approximation, the solution is given in analytical form. Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 90–96, March–April, 2000.     

A coupled WC-TL SPH method for simulation of hydroelastic problems

A coupled weakly compressible (WC) and total Lagrangian (TL) smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method is developed for simulating hydroelastic problems. The fluid phase is simulated using WCSPH method, while the structural dynamics are solved using TLSPH method. Fluid and solid components of the method are validated separately. A sloshing water tank problem is solved to test the WCSPH method while oscillation of a thin plate and large deformation of a cantilever beam are simulated to test the TLSPH method. After validating each component, the coupled WC-TL SPH scheme is used to simulate two benchmark hydroelastic problems. The first test case shows the evolution of water column with an elastic boundary gate, and the second one investigates the breaking water column impact on elastic structures. The agreement between WC-TL SPH results and literature data shows the ability of the proposed method in simulating hydroelastic phenomena.     

A 3D direct coupling method for steady ship hydroelastic analysis

Asides from the influence of incoming waves, ships can experience steady motions, such as rigid-body sinkage and trim motions, and flexible-body vertical bending motions, due to a constant forward speed even under calm water conditions. In this paper, a novel approach to analyze steady-ship hydroelasticity, particularly for the steady-ship motions and surrounding steady-wave disturbances, is proposed using a three-dimensional (3D) direct coupling method, based on a higher-order boundary element method (HOBEM) and a higher-order shell finite element method (FEM). Within the linearized framework, a solution method is proposed based on a two-step procedure, using two types of Neumann–Kelvin (NK) linear flow models for the fluid part and a virtual work equilibrium equation for the structural part. The first step is to compute a mean position wave-resistance problem using the modified NK equation, the second step is to solve a perturbed position wave-resistance problem, by employing a classical NK model and a virtual work equation based on the first step’s solution. Detailed mathematical formulation and numerical procedures are described, and a few numerical results are illustrated. These include both rigid and flexible steady-ship motions, Von-Mises stress distributions, and wave-resistance coefficients for Froude numbers ranging from 0.15 to 0.5. Furthermore, the numerical results obtained using the present direct coupling method and a modal-based one are compared.     

舰船尾部振动水弹性分析软件系统HDSS

介绍一个实用的舰船尾部振动水弹性分析软件系统,该系统基于流固耦合理论,针对舰船尾部结构特征,可以准确方便地预报出舰船尾部振动特性。系统还配有较强的后处理图形生成模块,可以形象逼真地绘制出振型图。     

N-order rogue waves and their novel colliding dynamics for a transient stimulated Raman scattering system arising from nonlinear optics

Nonlinear Dynamics - We report the novel colliding dynamics of the rogue waves (RWs) for a three-component transient stimulated Raman scattering system arising from nonlinear optics. The N-order RW...