Publication Date:
2015-08-12
Description:
Author(s): Xihang Shi, Xiao Lin, Fei Gao, Hongyi Xu, Zhaoju Yang, and Baile Zhang A century-long argument made by Lord Kelvin that all swimming objects have an effective Mach number of 3, corresponding to a Kelvin angle of 19.5° for ship waves, has been challenged recently with the conclusion that the Kelvin angle should gradually transit to the Mach angle as the ship's velocity … [Phys. Rev. B 92, 081404(R)] Published Tue Aug 11, 2015
Keywords:
Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems
Print ISSN:
1098-0121
Electronic ISSN:
1095-3795
Topics:
Physics
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