Damping Coefficient on a rolling boat

Discussion in 'Education' started by alock, Nov 26, 2007.

  1. alock
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    alock New Member

    I need help to in understanding how much damping a boat would have in calm water?

    I am basically attempting to simulate a boat on water (for simplicity its not a sailing boat).

    If a boat has been disturbed so that it rolls (say 10 degrees), how would I calculate the damping coefficient? (lets assume that the boats dimensions, weight, etc are know) .

    I believe it has something to do with eddies and viscous drag and the idea is it can be implemented with damped harmonic motion equation.

    Can anyone help please?
     
    alock, Nov 26, 2007
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  2. Marvic
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    Marvic Junior Member

    Alock,

    a reason you may not have got a reply to your post is this request is not as straight forward as you may think but it can be calculated if you send me your email address I can email you a step by step procedure to calculate
     
    Marvic, Sep 26, 2008
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