The damping of capillary–gravity waves at a rigid boundary
- 1 June 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 179, 253-266
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087001514
Abstract
The frequency and damping rate of surface capillary-gravity waves in a bounded region depend on the conditions imposed where the free surface makes contact with the boundary. Extreme cases are when the free surface meets the boundary orthogonally, as in the case of pure gravity waves, and when the contact line remains fixed throughout the motion. An edge condition that models to some extent the dynamics associated with moving contact lines, but not contact-angle hysteresis, is given by making the slope of the free surface at contact proportional to its velocity. This model, which includes the two extreme cases, is used to obtain the frequency and damping rate of a standing wave between two parallel vertical walls. The effect of viscosity in the boundary layers on the walls is included and it is shown that the dissipation associated with the surface forces can exceed that produced by viscosity. The results are compared with those obtained from a number of experimental investigations, in which damping rates too large to be attributed to viscous action have been measured.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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