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20142024
most citedWhat is the apparent angle of a Kelvin ship wave pattern?

59 citations · 287 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.flu-dyn2024

Computing sessile droplet shapes on arbitrary surfaces with a new pairwise force smoothed particle hydrodynamics model

Riley M Whebell, Timothy J Moroney, Ian W Turner +2

The study of the shape of droplets on surfaces is an important problem in the physics of fluids and has applications in multiple industries, from agrichemical spraying to microflui…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Simulation of high-speed impact of surfactant-laden drops

Olivier D. Y. Huet, Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney +4

We develop a computational model to simulate the immediate post-impact spreading behaviour of surfactant-laden drops that impact a flat and solid surface. The model is built on the…

math.NA2023

Data fusion for a multi-scale model of a wheat leaf surface: a unifying approach using a radial basis function partition of unity method

Riley M. Whebell, Timothy J. Moroney, Ian W. Turner +6

Realistic digital models of plant leaves are crucial to fluid dynamics simulations of droplets for optimising agrochemical spray technologies. The presence and nature of small feat…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Mathematical models and time-frequency heat maps for surface gravity waves generated by thin ships

Nicholas R. Buttle, Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney +4

Recent research suggests that studying the time-frequency response of ship wave signals has potential to shed light on a range of applications, such as inferring the dynamical and…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Spectrogram analysis of surface elevation signals due to accelerating ships

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J Moroney, Gregor J Macfarlane +1

Spectrograms provide an efficient way to analyse surface elevation signals of ship waves taken from a sensor fixed at a single point in space. Recent work based on a simplified mod…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 41 cited

Evaporating droplets on inclined plant leaves and synthetic surfaces: experiments and mathematical models

Eloise C. Tredenick, W. Alison Forster, Ravindra Pethiyagoda +2

Hypothesis: Evaporation of surfactant droplets on leaves is complicated due to the complex physical and chemical properties of the leaf surfaces. However, for certain leaf surfaces…

math.NA2020★ 7 cited

Implicit reconstructions of thin leaf surfaces from large, noisy point clouds

Riley M. Whebell, Timothy J. Moroney, Ian W. Turner +2

Thin surfaces, such as the leaves of a plant, pose a significant challenge for implicit surface reconstruction techniques, which typically assume a closed, orientable surface. We s…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 22 cited

Kelvin wake pattern at small Froude numbers

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney, Christopher J. Lustri +1

The surface gravity wave pattern that forms behind a steadily moving disturbance is well known to comprise divergent waves and transverse waves, contained within a distinctive V-sh…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 8 cited

Three-dimensional capillary waves due to a submerged source with small surface tension

Christopher J. Lustri, Ravindra Pethiyagoda, S. Jonathan Chapman

Steady and unsteady linearised flow past a submerged source are studied in the small-surface-tension limit, in the absence of gravitational effects. The free-surface capillary wave…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 18 cited

Three dimensional free-surface flow over arbitrary bottom topography

Nicholas R. Buttle, Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney +1

We consider steady nonlinear free surface flow past an arbitrary bottom topography in three dimensions, concentrating on the shape of the wave pattern that forms on the surface of…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 11 cited

Efficient computation of two-dimensional steady free-surface flows

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney, Scott W. McCue

We consider a family of steady free-surface flow problems in two dimensions, concentrating on the effect of nonlinearity on the train of gravity waves that appear downstream of a d…

physics.flu-dyn2017★ 39 cited

Time-frequency analysis of ship wave patterns in shallow water: modelling and experiments

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Timothy J. Moroney, Gregor J. MacFarlane +2

A spectrogram of a ship wake is a heat map that visualises the time-dependent frequency spectrum of surface height measurements taken at a single point as the ship travels by. Spec…

physics.flu-dyn2016★ 37 cited

Spectrograms of ship wakes: identifying linear and nonlinear wave signals

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney

A spectrogram is a useful way of using short-time discrete Fourier transforms to visualise surface height measurements taken of ship wakes in real world conditions. For a steadily…

physics.flu-dyn2015★ 17 cited

Wake angle for surface gravity waves on a finite depth fluid

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney

Linear water wave theory suggests that wave patterns caused by a steadily moving disturbance are contained within a wedge whose half-angle depends on the depth-based Froude number…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 59 cited

What is the apparent angle of a Kelvin ship wave pattern?

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney

While the half-angle which encloses a Kelvin ship wave pattern is commonly accepted to be 19.47 degrees, recent observations and calculations for sufficiently fast-moving ships sug…

physics.flu-dyn2014★ 28 cited

Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods with GPU acceleration for computing nonlinear ship wave patterns

Ravindra Pethiyagoda, Scott W. McCue, Timothy J. Moroney +1

The nonlinear problem of steady free-surface flow past a submerged source is considered as a case study for three-dimensional ship wave problems. Of particular interest is the dist…