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Hydrodynamic force characteristics in the splash zone

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OSTI ID:449664
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  1. Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria (Australia). Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

A comprehensive experimental study concerned with the hydrodynamic force characteristics of both rigid and compliant surface piercing cylinders, with a major focus on the local nature of these characteristics as realized in the splash zone and in the fully submerged zone immediately below this region, has been in progress at the University of Melbourne for the last three years. This paper concentrates on a portion of this study associated with uni-directional regular wave inputs with wave steepness (H/{lambda}) in the range 0.0005--0.1580 and Keulegan-Carpenter (KC) numbers in the range 2--15 which encompasses inertia force dominant (KC<5) to drag force significant conditions (5

OSTI ID:
449664
Report Number(s):
CONF-9606279--; ISBN 0-7918-1490-4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English