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The refraction of head seas by a long ship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2006
Abstract
It is known that head seas cannot travel without deformation along a horizontal cylinder of full constant cross-section. Calculations are given which indicate that the waves are refracted away from the axis of the cylinder. Similar refraction effects are found for waves generated by a pulsating source on the cylinder, and also for the Kelvin wave pattern generated by a long ship of nearly constant cross-sectiop moving with constant speed in the axial direction.
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