Non-uniqueness of steady free-surface flow at critical Froude number

Binder, Benjamin J., Blyth, Mark and Balasuriya, Sanjeeva (2014) Non-uniqueness of steady free-surface flow at critical Froude number. EPL, 105 (4). ISSN 0295-5075

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Abstract

Free-surface flow past a disturbance at critical Froude number is commonly found to be unsteady with complex wave patterns both upstream and downstream of the disturbance. Such flows can be undesirable as the waves that are generated can have a negative impact in applications including the erosion of waterway banks and energy loss through wave drag on a ship. This motivates us to develop a new approach to obtain steady solutions at critical Froude number that are wave free in the far field. Under the assumption of two-dimensional, irrotational, incompressible fluid flow, we show that both weakly and fully nonlinear solutions to the problem are non-unique. A range of qualitatively different types of numerical solutions and analytical approximations are discovered, for example for flow over a corrugated channel bottom.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Fluid and Solid Mechanics
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2014 12:40
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2024 01:04
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48834
DOI:	10.1209/0295-5075/105/44003

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