FIFTH ORDER GRAVITY WAVE THEORY

Skjelbreia, Hendrickson
Initial Data:
Water Depth:

dw 30

Water heigth:

Hw 18.7

Water periof:

Tw 7.72

Gravity

gv 32.5
Lw 252

Wave length:

dw
Lw

cw cosh 2

0.119

Initial Value

dw

1.293

Lw

sw sinh 2

dw

0.82

Lw

Lw

0.025

Lo gv

Tw

308.275

62.4

Wave Profile:

B22 2 cw 1

B24 cw

B33 3

2.549

384 sw

8cw6 1 5.931
6

88128cw14 208224cw12 70848cw10 54000cw8 21816cw6 6264cw4 54cw2 6

12
2
12288sw 6cw 1

B44 cw

B55

4sw3

272cw8 504cw6 192cw4 322cw2 21 4.18

64.sw

B35

cw

768cw10 448cw8 48cw6 48cw4 106cw2 21 14.723

9
2
384sw 6cw 1

192000cw16 262720cw14 83680cw12 20160cw10 7280cw8 7160cw6 1800cw4 105

10
2
4
2
12288sw 6cw 1 8cw 11cw 3

Potential funtions:
1
A11
1.22
sw

2
2 5cw 1

A13 cw

5.285

8sw

A15

10

1184cw

10.962

1440cw 1992cw 2641cw 249cw 18

11

1536sw
3

A22

0.831

8sw

192cw8 424cw6 312cw4 480cw2 17 5.398

A24

10

768sw

13 4cw2 0.397

A33

64sw

512cw12 4224cw10 6800cw8 12808cw6 16704cw4 3154cw2 107 1.827

13
2
4096sw 6cw 1

A35

A44

80cw6 816cw4 1338cw2 197 0.07

10
2
1536sw 6cw 1

10

2880cw

A55

72480cw 324000cw 432000cw 163470cw 16245

6cw2 18cw4 11cw2 3

11

61440sw

0.081

Other Constants:
C1

8cw4 8cw2 9 4.98

4

8sw

C2

3840cw12 4096cw10 2592cw8 1008cw6 5944cw4 1830cw2 147 94.107

10
2
512sw 6cw 1

C3

C4

1
4sw cw

0.236

8
6
4
2

12cw 36cw 162cw 141cw 27

0.432
9

192cw sw

Co

gv tanh( dw) 4.539

sinh( dw) 0.82

cosh( dw) 1.293

Solving the equations:

f ( )

3 B 5 B B
33
35
55

dw

2
4

Lo tanh( dw) 1 C1 C2

Hw
dw

1.9582594207376377853

6.5143944183353873445
0

71.079190489063544891

coe1 f ( ) coeffs
1020.4221112462803726

4706.6368578110699968

20229.128465580734043

Solution :

0.251 0.218i
0.251 0.218i
0.212 0.39i

0.212 0.39i
polyroots( coe1 ) 0.124 0.352i
0.124 0.352i

0.187

0.245 0.331i
0.245 0.331i
2 .188

Choose

Lw2 Lo tanh( dw) 1 2 C1 2 C2 252.804

Find: Lw2==Lw

2 0.188
L 252
2

0.025

Cw

Wave velocity .:

L
Tw

32.642

( x t) ( x Cw t)

( x t)

cos( ( x t) )

B22 B24

cos( 2 ( x t) )

B33 B35

cos( 3 ( x t)

S( x t) dw ( x t)

A 3 A 5A cosh( S( x t) ) sin( ( x t) ) 2 A 4A cosh( 2

13
15
22
24
11

( x t)

u ( x t)

d
( x t)
dx

d ( x t) d ( x t)

dx
dt

v ( x t) u ( x t)

vel( x t)

u ( x t) v ( x t)

2 C 4C
3
4

k
0.313

2 gv ( ( x t) k ) 2 ( x t) ( vel( x t) )

dt

P( x t)

t 0
3

2 10

0
3

2 10
P( x t)

4 10

6 10

8 10

100

200
x

20

10
u( x t)
0

10

100

200
x

20

10

v( x t)

10

20

100

200
x

45

40

35
dw ( x t)
30

25

20

100

200
x

44

42

dw ( x t) 40

38

36

10

20
u( x t)

20

15

vel( x t) 10

100

200

.536

50cw 225

39.534

B44

cos( 4 ( x t) )

B55

cos( 5 ( x t) )

S( x t) ) sin( 2 ( x t) ) A33 A35 cosh( 3 S( x t) ) sin( 3 ( x t) ) A44 cosh( 4 S( x t) ) sin( 4

Cw

300

400

500

300

400

500

300

400

500

300

400

500

300
x

400

500

4 ( x t)) A55 cosh( 5 S( x t) ) sin( 5 ( x t) )