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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 1997

XUE-NONG CHEN  and
SOM DEO SHARMA
XUE-NONG CHEN
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute A, University of Stuttgart, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
SOM DEO SHARMA
Affiliation:
Institute of Ship Technology, Mercator University, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany
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Abstract

This paper deals with the wave pattern and wave resistance of a slender ship moving steadily at supercritical speed in a shallow water channel. Using, successively, linear and nonlinear shallow-water wave theory it is demonstrated that, if the hull form is adapted to speed and channel geometry according to certain rules, the ship waves can be made to form a localized pattern around the ship that moves at the same speed as the ship and at the same time the associated wave resistance can be made to vanish. In the nonlinear case, the zero-wave-resistance ship hull is derived from a KP equation solution of the oblique interaction of two identical solitons. This astonishing phenomenon may be called shallow-channel superconductivity.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 335 , 25 March 1997 , pp. 305 - 321
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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