Ship waves in the presence of uniform vorticity
arXiv:1401.1682 · doi:10.1017/jfm.2014.28
Abstract
Lord Kelvin's result that waves behind a ship lie within a half-angle 19 deg 28' is perhaps the most famous and striking result in the field of surface waves. We solve the linear ship wave problem in the presence of a shear current of constant vorticity S, and show that the Kelvin angles (one each side of wake) as well as other aspects of the wake depend closely on the "shear Froude number" Frs=VS/g (based on length g/S^2 and the ship's speed V), and on the angle between current and the ship's line of motion. In all directions except exactly along the shear flow there exists a critical value of Frs beyond which no transverse waves are produced, and where the full wake angle reaches 180 deg. Such critical behaviour is previously known from waves at finite depth. For side-on shear, one Kelvin angle can exceed 90 deg. On the other hand, the angle of maximum wave amplitude scales as 1/Fr (Fr based on size of ship) when Fr >> 1, a scaling virtually unaffected by the shear flow.
10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for J. Fluid Mech. Rapids
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