Transient free-surface waves due to impulsive motion of a submerged source

• Main Author: Shu, Jian Jun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Fluid mechanics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93995; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7134
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The problem of a viscous flow past a submerged source starting from rest and moving with a constant velocity, below and parallel to a free surface, is examined and symptotic expressions for long-time evolution of free-surface elevation are obtained. The results show explicitly the vis...