There was a lot of work on this in the 1960's by Lawrence Ward, and earlier by Wehausen, Weinblum and others in the late 1950's. Ada Gotman also...
Michlet uses Michell's thin-ship theory and linear wave theory. Some viscous damping effects are included in estimating (far-field) wave...
My advice is to skip the maths (which is quite daunting in places!) and focus more on the discussion and observations. Hopefully you will get...
The Feb. 2016 edition of the Australian Naval Architect is available at: http://www.rina.org.uk/hres/The%20ANA%20Vol%2020%20No%201%20Feb%2016.pdf...
Attached are a paper and PhD thesis that might give you some ideas. Also see: Gourlay, T.P. and Tuck, E.O., "The Maximum Sinkage of a Ship",...
She was definitely the initial inspiration for his interest in China. However, there was some scientist in the Royal Society, or a politician, or...
He's one of many at the time. Admiral Canaris, although not technically a "spy", helped the Allied cause a lot too. Off the espionage track...
Yes, they have Generals January and February. They also had some other friends during WW2. In 1943, they won the Battle of Kursk (one of the...
There are many different systems that still need investigating for this application. The attached paper about the development of a...
http://ittc.info/download/proceedings
There are several programs that can do that, e.g. AQWA, GL Rankine, MOSES, OCTOPUS, PDStrip, and WAMIT. The attached paper by Gourlay et al...
Yes. It is more than just the heave, or sinkage, component. It isn't quite that simple because every part of the hull produces waves that...
Yes, the nuclear industry has often been very deceptive and duplicitous about costs. There are many in the alternative energy field who are...
Thanks for those, SukiSolo. Unfortunately, they don't define what they mean by phrases like "tidal stream energy could theoretically...
I believe that also works for predicting the outcome of horse races! :) I agree with you that the uncertainty is enormous. The best economists,...
Although I'm very much in favour of renewables, where appropriate, I find it hard to be too enthused by Rance. It is in an excellent position...
I agree with the first part: the idealists and prognosticators of the 1990's didn't have much of an idea of how things would pan out once a...
I can understand a horse not being able to handle a wet track, but a boat? :rolleyes:
Sorry for taking so long to get back to this post. There is a paper by Matiur Rahman that shows how to calculate the 3D Green's function for...
Here are three books that would be a very good start... Basic Ship Theory by Rawson and Tupper...
