Hydrodynamic Pressure Field on a Slender Ship Moving Over a High-Frequency Wavy Shallow Bottom

Abstract

The hydrodynamic pressure field for the unsteady subcritical potential flow of a slender ship moving over a wavy wall in shallow water is analyzed using perturbation techniques. For the case of wall wavelength much smaller than the ship length but larger than the transverse ship dimensions, a combination of the methods of matched asymptotic expansions and multiple scales is used to obtain the lowest-order effect of the bottom variation.