4 papers
Preferential orientation of slender elastic floaters in gravity waves
Wietze Herreman, Basile Dhote, Frederic Moisy
Slender floaters drifting in propagating gravity waves slowly rotate towards a preferential state of orientation with respect to the angle of incidence. This angular drift arises f…
Capillary effects on preferential orientation of floaters in gravity waves
Basile Dhote, Ewen Le Ster, Wietze Herreman +1
We study the influence of capillary effects on the motion of thin elastic plates denser than water drifting in propagating surface gravity waves. Such floaters experience a mean an…
Flexible floaters align with the direction of wave propagation
Basile Dhote, Frederic Moisy, Wietze Herreman
We investigate the slow, second order motion of thin flexible floating strips drifting in surface gravity waves. We introduce a diffractionless model (Froude-Krylov approximation)…
Preferential orientation of small floaters drifting in water waves
W. Herreman, B. Dhote, L. Danion +1
Elongated floaters drifting in propagating water waves slowly rotate towards a preferential orientation with respect to the direction of incidence. In this article, we study this p…