XLVII. The drifting force on a ship among waves
XLVII. The drifting force on a ship among waves
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10.1080/14786444208521213
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1942-06
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T. Havelock
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T. Havelock
1. WHEN a ship is advancing through a train of waves it experiences an average steady resistance greater than that at the same speed in smooth water. There are no doubt several factors operative in producing this result; one, for instance, may be described as wave pressure due to the reflexion or scattering of the ocean waves by the surface of the ship (Kreitner, 1939). This must certainly be taken into account in a complete theory, but investigation of it involves second-order terms in the hydrodynamical equations and a satisfactory solution of the problem would be difficult. Certain calculations which I have given recently (1940) seem to show that this cause is not likely to account for more than a small fraction of the observed results. Experiment shows that the effect is most prominent when the period of encounter of the ship with the waves is near the natural periods of the ship's oscillations; whether directly or indirectly, the phenomenon is clearly associated with the heaving and pitching motions of the ship. In the paper already quoted (1940) it was suggested that it may well be that interactions between first-order effects which in themselves are purely periodic may, through phase differences, give rise to steady additional resistances. The object of the present note is to give some tentative'calculations amplifying and illustrating this suggestion. For this purpose we fall back on the approximate theory which neglects the disturbing effect of the ship's surface upon the wave motion. In suitable cases we may perhaps regard the necessary additions for the reflected waves to be small corrections, as, for instance, for a long narrow ship (1937). This assumption was the basis of the theory developed by W. Froude in his work on the rolling of a ship among waves, in which case the wavelength is assumed large compared with the beam of the ship. It was also used explicitly by Kriloff in his well-known analysis of the heaving and pitching of a ship among waves. This latter work dealt only with the oscillations of the ship, and not with the extra resistance to motion which is now under consideration. It is true that the problem involves, in some form at least, second-order terms, and any partial separate examination of such terms is unsatisfactory; the following calculations