- Title
- Generation of gravity waves by pedal-wavemakers
- Creator
- Vivanco, Isis; Cartwright, Bruce; Araujo, A. Ledesma; Gordillo, Leonardo; Marin, Juan F.
- Relation
- ARC.LP190101283 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP190101283
- Relation
- Fluids Vol. 6, Issue 6, no. 6060222
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids6060222
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Experimental wave generation in channels is usually achieved through wavemakers (moving paddles) acting on the surface of the water. Although practical for engineering purposes, wavemakers have issues: they perform poorly in the generation of long waves and create evanescent waves in their vicinity. In this article, we introduce a framework for wave generation through the action of an underwater multipoint mechanism: the pedal-wavemaking method. Our multipoint action makes each point of the bottom move with a prescribed pedalling-like motion. We analyse the linear response of waves in a uniform channel in terms of the wavelength of the bottom action. The framework naturally solves the problem of the performance for long waves and replaces evanescent waves by a thin boundary layer at the bottom of the channel. We also show that proper synchroni-sation of the orbital motion on the bottom can produce waves that mimic deep water waves. This last feature has been proved to be useful to study fluid–structure interaction in simulations based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics.
- Subject
- gravity surface waves; wave-makers; water-wave generation; computational fluid dynamics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452149
- Identifier
- uon:44375
- Identifier
- ISSN:2311-5521
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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