Nonlinear high-froude-number free-surface problems

Non-uniqueness of steady free-surface flow at critical Froude number

Free-surface flow past a disturbance at critical Froude number is commonly found to be unsteady with complex wave patterns both upstream and downstream of the disturbance. Such flows can be undesirable as the waves that are generated can have a negative impact in applications including the erosion of waterway banks and energy loss through wave drag on a ship. This motivates us to develop a new ...

Froude number corrections in anthropological studies.

The Froude number has been widely used in anthropology to adjust for size differences when comparing gait parameters or other nonmorphological locomotor variables (such as optimal walking speed or speed at gait transitions) among humans, nonhuman primates, and fossil hominins. However, the dynamic similarity hypothesis, which is the theoretical basis for Froude number corrections, was originall...

Xperimental Study of Froude Number Modeli

Surface Effect on Nonlinear Free Vibration Analysis of Nanotubes

In this work,The free nonlinear vibrations of nanotubes using the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory along with the von Kármán geometric nonlinearity in presence of surface effects has been investigated. Natural frequencies of a simply-supported nanotube in terms of the Jacobi elliptic functions are obtained by using the free vibration modes of the corresponding linear problem. The numerical results d...

An Asymptotic Preserving Scheme for Low Froude Number Shallow Flows

We present an asymptotic preserving (AP), large time-step scheme for the shallow water equations in the low Froude number limit. Based on a multiscale asymptotic expansion, the momentum fluxes are split into a nonstiff and a stiff part. A semi-implicit discretisation, where the nonstiff terms are treated explicitly and stiff terms implicitly in time, is crucial to achieve the AP property. A com...