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Linearized planing-surface theory with surface tension. Part II: Detachment with discontinuous slope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

E. O. Tuck
E. O. Tuck
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide, Box 498, G.P.O., Adelaide, South Australia 5001
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In Part I of this series, surface tension was included in the classical two-dimensional planing-surface problem, and the usual smooth-detachment trailing-edge condition enforced. However, the results exhibited a paradox, in that the classical results were not approached in the limit as the surface tension approached zero. This paradox is resolved here by abandoning the smooth-detachment condition, that is, by allowing a jump discontinuity in slope between the planing surface and the free surface at the trailing edge. A unique solution is obtainable for any input planing surface at fixed wetted length if one allows such jumps at both leading and trailing edges. If, as is the case in practice, the wetted length is allowed to vary, uniqueness may be restored by requiring either, but not both, of these slope discontinuities to vanish. The results of Part I correspond to the seemingly more-natural choice of making the trailing-edge detachment continuous, but it appears that the correct choice is to require the leading-edge attachment to be continuous.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1982 , pp. 259 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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