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Hysteresis and nonlinear detuning in a spatial-resonance phenomenon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

Ian Huntley
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics Research Institute, University of Essex Present address: Engineering Department, University of Leicester.
Ronald Smith
Affiliation:
Fluid Mechanics Research Institute, University of Essex

Abstract

The experimental work of Franklin, Price & Williams (1973) shows that for moderately large driving amplitudes there are features of spatial resonance that are not predicted by the model representation of Mahony & Smith (1972). We here derive an alternative model, which remains valid for moderately large driving amplitudes, and we are able to obtain a theoretical description of both hysteresis and nonlinear detuning of the low frequency wave response. An experiment in which surface waves were generated by a sinusoidal pressure field at the free surface (and which corresponds almost exactly to the theoretical problem) was conducted in order to test these predictions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1973 Cambridge University Press

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