SHIP STERN AND WAKE FLOWS: STATUS OF EXPERIMENT AND THEORY

This paper deals with the viscous flow over the stern and in the wake of a ship. Wave effects are largely excluded, as are those of appendages and propulsors. The emphasis is therefore on the flow around a bare body, or on the so-called nominal wake. The paper provides a review of the present status of experimental information and computational capabilities. It is shown that quite dramatic progress has been made in the computational modelling of the geometrical and numerical features of such flows, and the resulting methodology is beginning to make an impact on the solution of other problems of ship hydrodynamics.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference paper
• Authors:
  • Patel, V C
• Conference:
  • Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, 17th
  • Location: The Hague, Netherlands
  • Date: 1988-8-29 to 1988-9-2
• Publication Date: 0

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 24p., incl. discuss.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Calculation; Viscous flow; Wakes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computation; Experimental data
• Old TRIS Terms: Overviews; Stern flow
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00659568
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM