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This video is about the "Kelvin wake" shape of water wakes behind boats - we talk about mach angle, dispersion, superposition of many waves, and how these all lead to the pattern of a wake. We don't get into Froude number though...
REFERENCES
Boat Wake Wikipedia Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake
Interactive Boat Wake Simulation: observablehq.com/@rreusser/di...
Feynman Lectures on Water Waves: www.feynmanlectures.caltech.e...
Building up a Boat Wake from V-Shaped Wakes: editor.p5js.org/aatish/full/b...
Wave Dispersion: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispers...
Mach angle shock waves:
www.sciencedirect.com/topics/...
Ship Wakes - Kelvin or Mach Angle? Rabaud and Moisy Paper: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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20 мар 2021
