Scaling Laws for Hull Dynamics

Hello -

I'm looking for a reference on how one might expect a model of a boat's performance to scale as the size of the boat increases. I'm building numerical models of hull performance using small scale boats and want to be able to argue convincingly that I can apply those same modeling techniques to the performance of full scale boats in the future.

Any thoughts or references I should look at?

Thanks,

Stuart Anderson

 

Always start with Froude.
Read "THe Papers of William Froude" M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.
Published 1955
It all starts there.

Ivor Bittle

 

Have a look here:

http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/sjbooty/notes_on_scale.htm

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=r...r1u-L2E0Vr-ysBcRQ&sig2=Em9ORjzfoq-8_Vny1wvz3A

 

http://books.google.es/books?id=Vo3...rDOAw&sig=maqO0VKgezUVbGql6vzCr04bUI0#PPA4,M1
http://books.google.es/books?id=kZF...sig=S7pXahZS_hNyci-ddyL1NM1ECQQ&hl=es#PPP1,M1

Cheers.

 

Thanks!

Thanks all, and especially CGN, for the references - they are exactly what I was looking for.

Stuart

 

Scaling

Don't forget basic laws if you have a free running model.

For example, if a model were 1/10 scale it would have to have 1/1000 the weight (1/10 length x 1/10 width x 1/10 height = 1/1000 the volume).