Abstract: | The data of a laboratory experiment to observe the small perturbations of a free surface by a thin hydrofoil profile moving horizontally in water are presented and compared with the calculation results obtained for a hydrofoil modeled by a system of distributed sources and sinks within the framework of the small-wave approximation.Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Academii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, 2004, pp. 145–152.Original Russian Text Copyright – 2004 by Boyarintsev, Lednev, Prudnikov, Savin, and Savina. |