Numerical simulation and experimental study of water entry of a wedge in free fall motion

Journal of Fluids and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-289

  Wu, G X ^a   Sun, H ^b   He, Y S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FUNCTIONS; GRAVITATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; FLOW PATTERNS;

BODY MOTIONS; SURFACE DEFORMATION; WATER ENTRY; WEDGES;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW CHARACTERISTICS; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; WEDGE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION;

SHALLOW WATER APPROXIMATION; VELOCITY POTENTIAL THEORY;

EID: 3042544046     PISSN: 08899746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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