wake
WAKE
WAKE may refer to:
- WAKE (AM), a radio station (1500 AM) licensed to Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
- WAKE (cipher), Word Auto Key Encryption
- WAKE (novel), a young adult novel by Lisa McMann
- Bade Airport, the airport in Bade, Indonesia, assigned ICAO code WAKE
Wake
In
fluid dynamics, a
wake may either be:
- the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary blunt body, caused by viscosity, which may be accompanied by flow separation and turbulence, or
- the wave pattern on the water surface downstream of an object in a flow, or produced by a moving object (e.g. a ship), caused by density differences of the fluids above and below the free surface and gravity (or surface tension),
or both.