The Propagation of Compressional Waves in a Dispersive Elastic Rod: Part II—Experimental Results and Comparison With Theory

1957 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-244
Author(s):  
Julius Miklowitz ◽  
C. R. Nisewanger

Abstract Experimental results, obtained by employing an aerodynamic shock tube for rod excitation, are presented. Comparison of these results with the theoretical information presented in Part I is made. It is shown that the Mindlin-Herrmann theory, through its upper mode (radial), offers a good approximate representation of the moderately short waves that predominate at the later times at a random station of the rod. The very short waves of this same radial mode, however, govern the early disturbance, thus precluding the possibility of representing this portion of the disturbance, which the experiment shows to be composed of relatively long waves, by the longitudinal mode of the theory.

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (16) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Michio Sato ◽  
Kazuo Nakamura

In this paper we describe an experimental study on changes in height of short gravity waves on long waves. Experiments were conducted by making mechanically generated long waves superpose on mechanically generated short waves in a wave flume of 30m long and lm wide. Exact solution by Longuet-Higgins and Stewart explained our experimental results, but approximate expression a'= a,(l+P) which is widely accepted seemed to be inadequate to explain our results.


1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.W. Bijker ◽  
C.A. De Bruyn

Tests have been performed on a vertical pile subject to current only and to a combination of current with normal waves and current with breaking waves. The scour around the pile produced by current only is decreased by normal short waves superimposed upon that current and increased when breaking waves are superimposed upon the current. After analysis of the velocity profiles in the undisturbed area upstream of the pile and next to the pile, the following explanation is found for this phenomenon. When normal short waves are superimposed upon a current, the bottom shear stress of the combination of current with waves is increased more in the undisturbed area than next to the pile in the scour area. This results in a decrease of the scour around the pile. Due to the large values of the orbital velocity under breaking waves this effect is reversed for the combination of a current with breaking and relatively long waves. This results in an increase of the scour around the pile.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukui Liu ◽  
Apostolos Papanikolaou

In this study, we analyze the experimental results of the mean sway (side drift) forces of six full type ships at low speeds in regular waves of various directions and compare them with numerical results of the in-house 3D panel code NEWDRIFT. It is noted that the mean sway force is most significant in relatively short waves, with the peak being observed at λ/LPP ≈ 0.5–0.6. For λ/LPP > 1.0, the corresponding value is rather small. We also observe a solid recurring pattern of the mean sway force acting on the analyzed full type ships. On this basis, we proceed to approximate the mean sway force with an empirical formula, in which only the main ship particulars and wave parameters are used. Preliminary validation results show that the developed empirical formula, which is readily applicable in practice, can accurately predict the mean sway force acting on a full ship, at both zero and non-zero speeds.


1978 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 203-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan M. Reece
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2001 ◽  
Vol 167 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. RISTORI ◽  
P. DAGAUT ◽  
A. EL BAKALI ◽  
G. PENGLOAN ◽  
M. CATHONNET

1984 ◽  
Vol 139 ◽  
pp. 219-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiang C. Mei ◽  
Chakib Benmoussa

Unidirectional and periodically modulated short waves on a horizontal or very nearly horizontal bottom are known to be accompanied by long waves which propagate together with the envelope of the short waves at their group velocity. However, for variable depth with a horizontal lengthscale which is not too great compared with the group length, long waves of another kind are further induced. If the variation of depth is only one-dimensional and localized in a finite region, then the additional long waves can radiate away from this region, in directions which differ from those of the short waves and their envelopes. There are also critical depths which define caustics for these new long waves but not for the short waves. Thus, while obliquely incident short waves can pass over a topography, these second-order long waves may be trapped on a ridge or away from a canyon.


1981 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 383-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Itoh ◽  
N. Okazaki ◽  
M. Itaya

Shock reflections over a convex and a concave wedge were investigated by using a 5 × 7 cm ordinary pressure-driven shock tube. Dry air was used for both the driving and driven gases. The large difference between the transition from regular (RR) to Mach reflection (MR) and that from MR to RR was observed, confirming the results obtained by Ben-Dor, Takayama & Kawauchi (1980). These results contradict all of the previous theoretical transition criteria. A new theory on the transition between RR and MR was developed by applying Whitham's ‘ray shock’ theory. This new theory agrees quite well with the experimental results.


1930 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. O. Street

This paper is devoted chiefly to the consideration of the surface oscillations of water contained in a vessel in the shape of a circular cylinder with its axis vertical, when the motion is slightly disturbed from a uniform rotation about the axis of the vessel. The work was undertaken with the hope of finding some indication of the effect of the depth of the water in the vessel on the period of the surface waves, and for the purpose a vessel of circular cross-section was naturally chosen. It is shown that a slight change of shape does not affect the periods of the oscillations. The solution of the corresponding problem when the surface oscillations take the form of “long waves” or “tidal waves” is well known, and the present paper deals only with “short waves,” for which the horizontal velocity is not the same at all depths.


Some preliminary experiments in 1927 showed that the maximum current produced by the incidence of short wireless waves on a tuned rectangular frame aerial was very critically dependent on the dimensions of the frame. An increase or decrease in the width or height of the frame by only a few centimetres might change the current many hundred fold, such current variations being quite independent of the tuning. Furthermore the reduction of current caused by, say, a decrease in the frame width could be compensated by an increase in the frame height and vice versa , but the changes in dimensions were not equal in magnitude, neither was their product a constant. In fact, the maximum current depended on the shape of the frame and also varied irregularly with the area. For a given wave-length there were certain critical areas for maximum current, and doubling the area of a frame did not quadruple the current (as when receiving long waves) but the current was reduced to one of negligible magnitude, although the frame was kept properly tuned. It was found that these anomalous effects could be explained by taking into consideration, not only the action of the passing wave, but also the mutual action between the currents flowing in adjacent parts of the frame. In order to do this, it is convenient to consider the current in any limb as the resultant of two component currents ; namely a “direct” component due to the incidence of the wave on the particular limb, and an “indirect” component due to the effects of the currents in adjacent limbs. These two components will, in general, differ in phase and amplitude, and the problem reduces to the determination of those conditions which tend to produce the maximum resultant current.


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