Zero wave resistance for ships moving in shallow channels at supercritical speeds

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 335, Issue , 1997, Pages 305-321

  Chen, Xue Nong ^a   Sharma, Som Deo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; FLOW PATTERNS; HULLS (SHIP); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS; WATER WAVES;

SHALLOW CHANNEL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SHALLOW WATER WAVE THEORY; SUPERCRITICAL SPEEDS; WATER WAVE PATTERNS; WATER WAVE RESISTANCE;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

CHANNELS; VESSELS; WAVE PATTERNS;

EID: 0005238749     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096004533     Document Type: Article

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