scholarly journals The effect of surface tension in porous wave maker problems

Author(s):  
A. Chakrabarti ◽  
T. Sahoo

AbstractUsing a mixed-type Fourier transform of a general form in the case of water of infinite depth and the method of eigenfunction expansion in the case of water of finite depth, several boundary-value problems involving the propagation and scattering of time harmonic surface water waves by vertical porous walls have been fully investigated, taking into account the effect of surface tension also. Known results are recovered either directly or as particular cases of the general problems under consideration.

Author(s):  
P. F. Rhodes-Robinson

AbstractIn this note we examine the influence of surface tension on surface waves incident against a fixed vertical plane wall. The motion is time harmonic and is determined by making the initial assumption that the free-surface slope at the wall is prescribed. From the unique solution obtained for the velocity potential, the parameter involved in this specification can be determined, for small laboratory-scale waves at least, using some longstanding experimental results on meniscus behaviour at a moving contact line. The effect of surface tension is to produce a motion wherein reflexion from the wall is not complete and there is a local disturbance, in contrast to the classical standing-wave motion in the absence of surface tension.


In this paper the influence of surface tension is allowed for in deriving formulas that determine the velocity potentials describing the outgoing progressive waves for two-dimensional time-harmonic motion due to both partially immersed and completely submerged vertical wave-makers in water of infinite depth. For this purpose an effective reduction method is developed to extend a known method suitable only in the absence of surface tension. The two results are used to find the reflected and transmitted waves due to waves incident upon partially immersed and completely submerged fixed vertical barriers, after reformulation as wave-maker problems; and to find the outgoing waves due to a partially immersed vertical hinged plate as a standard example. Certain edge-slope constants needed for the partially immersed wave-maker problem are evaluated using an appropriate dynamical edge condition.


2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Jing Cui ◽  
Guangyue Gao ◽  
Shu-Ming Sun

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>The paper concerns the controllability and stabilization of surface water waves in a two-dimensional rectangular basin under the forces of gravity and surface tension. The surface waves are generated by a wave-maker placed at the left side-boundary and it is physical relevant to see whether the surface waves are controllable or can be stabilized using appropriate motion of the wave-maker. Due to the surface tension, an edge condition must be imposed at the contact point between the free surface and a solid boundary. Two types of wave-makers are considered: "flexible" or "rigid". It is shown that the surface waves are approximately controllable, but not exactly controllable, for both "flexible" and "rigid" wave-makers. In addition, under a static feedback to control a "rigid" wave-maker, the strong stability of feedback control system is obtained.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 30-55
Author(s):  
Gour Das ◽  
◽  
Rumpa Chakraborty ◽  

The influence of surface tension over an oblique incident waves in presence of thick rectangular barriers present in water of uniform finite depth is discussed here. Three different structures of a bottom-standing submerged barrier, submerged rectangular block not extending down to the bottom and fully submerged block extending down to the bottom with a finite gap are considered. An appropriate multi-term Galekin approximation technique involving ultraspherical Gegenbauer polynomial is employed for solving the integral equations arising in the mathematical analysis. The reflection and transmission coefficients of the progressive waves for two-dimensional time har- monic motion are evaluated by utilizing linearized potential theory. The theoretical result is validated numerically and explained graphically in a number of figures. The present result will almost match analytically and graphically with those results already available in the literature without considering the effect of surface tension. From the graphical representation, it is clearly visible that the amplitude of reflection coefficient decreases with increasing values of surface tension. It is also seen that the presence of surface tension, the change of width, and the height of the thick barriers affect the nature of the reflection coefficients significantly


Author(s):  
P. F. Rhodes-Robinson

AbstractIn this paper various wave motions in water of infinite depth containing vertical porous boundaries are determined when the water is of infinite extent on one or both sides. Initially surface tension is ignored and simple solutions for incident waves are obtained before going on to harder wave source and wave-maker solutions. A reduction method is developed to obtain solutions for two-sided boundaries from those for one-sided, which are obtained by standard techniques. The effect of surface tension that precludes simple solutions is also considered, although a present lack of information on dynamical edge behaviour for porous boundaries means that the formal mathematical solutions must be left in terms of arbitrary edge constants. In conclusion, some solutions are noted for finite depth.


1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. F. Rhodes-Robinson

In this paper the forms are obtained for the harmonic potential functions describing the fundamental wave-source and multipole singularities which pertain to the study of infinitesimal time-harmonic waves on the free surface of water when the effect of surface tension is included. Line and point singularities are considered for both the cases of infinite and finite constant depth of water. The method used is an extension of that which has been used to obtain these potentials in the absence of surface tension.


Author(s):  
N. K. Ghosh

AbstractThe problem of generation of waves in a liquid of uniform finite depth with an inertial surface composed of a thin but uniform distribution of disconnected floating particles, due to forced axisymmetric motion prescribed on the surface of an immersed vertical cylindrical wave-maker of circular cross section under the influence of surface tension at the inertial surface, is discussed. The techniques of Laplace transform in time and the modified Weber transform involving Bessel functions in the radial coordinate have been employed to obtain the velocity potential. The steady-state development to the potential function as well as the inertial surface depression due to time-harmonic forced oscillations of the wave-maker are deduced. It is found that the presence of surface tension at the inertial surface ensures the propagation of time-harmonic progressive waves of any angular frequency.


2015 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. SAHA ◽  
S. N. BORA

We consider a two-layer fluid of finite depth with a free surface and, in particular, the surface tension at the free surface and the interface. The usual assumptions of a linearized theory are considered. The objective of this work is to analyse the effect of surface tension on trapped modes, when a horizontal circular cylinder is submerged in either of the layers of a two-layer fluid. By setting up boundary value problems for both of the layers, we find the frequencies for which trapped waves exist. Then, we numerically analyse the effect of variation of surface tension parameters on the trapped modes, and conclude that realistic changes in surface tension do not have a significant effect on the frequencies of these.


1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-404
Author(s):  
B. N. Mandal ◽  
S. Banerjea

The initial value problem of generation of surface water waves by a harmonically oscillating plane vertical wavemaker in an infinite incompressible fluid under the action of gravity and surface tension is investigated. In the asymptotic evaluation of the free surface depression for large time and distance, the contribution to the integral by stationary phase method gives rise to transient component of the free surface depression while the contribution from the poles give rise to steady state component. It is observed that the presence of surface tension sometimes changes the qualitative nature of the transient component of free surface depression.


Author(s):  
M. D. Groves ◽  
E. Wahlén

We present an existence and stability theory for gravity–capillary solitary waves with constant vorticity on the surface of a body of water of finite depth. Exploiting a rotational version of the classical variational principle, we prove the existence of a minimizer of the wave energy𝓗subject to the constraint𝓘= 2µ, where𝓘is the wave momentum and 0 <µ≪ 1. Since𝓗and𝓘are both conserved quantities, a standard argument asserts the stability of the setDµof minimizers: solutions starting nearDµremain close toDµin a suitably defined energy space over their interval of existence. In the applied mathematics literature solitary water waves of the present kind are described by solutions of a Korteweg–de Vries equation (for strong surface tension) or a nonlinear Schrödinger equation (for weak surface tension). We show that the waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of the appropriate model equation asµ↓ 0.


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