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Unsteady, Free Surface Flows; Solutions Employing the Lagrangian Description of the Motion

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Title Unsteady, Free Surface Flows; Solutions Employing the Lagrangian Description of the Motion
 
Creator Brennen, Christopher
Whitney, Arthur K.
 
Subject Caltech Library Services
 
Description Numerical techniques for the solution of unsteady free surface flows are briefly reviewed and consideration is given to the feasibility of methods involving parametric planes where the position and shape of the free surface are known in advance. A method for inviscid flows which uses the Lagrangian description of the motion is developed. This exploits the flexibility in the choice of Lagrangian reference coordinates and is readily adapted to include terms due to inhomogeneity of the fluid. Numerical results are compared in two cases of irrotational flow of a homogeneous fluid for which Lagrangian linearized solutions can be constructed. Some examples of wave run-up on a beach and a shelf are then computed.
 
Publisher Office of Naval Research
 
Contributor Plesset, Milton S.
Wu, T. Yao-Tsu
Doroff, Stanley W.
 
Date 1970
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://authors.library.caltech.edu/183/1/BRE010.pdf
Brennen, Christopher and Whitney, Arthur K. (1970) Unsteady, Free Surface Flows; Solutions Employing the Lagrangian Description of the Motion. In: Hydrodynamics in the Ocean Environment; Eighth Symposium, Naval Hydrodynamics. [ONR] Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics. No.8. Office of Naval Research , Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 117-145. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:BREonrsnh70 <http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:BREonrsnh70>
 
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