WIT Press

Seakeeping Performance Assessment Of Planing Hulls

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

12

Pages

8

Published

1995

Size

681 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/MT950071

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

G.J. Grigoropoulos & T.A. Loukakis

Abstract

A new systematic series of planing hull forms, with good characteristics with respect to both resistance and seakeeping is under development at the Laboratory for Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics of the National Technical University of Athens. Before the selection of the parent hull, five "equivalent" models with the same main particulars and different hull forms have been designed and tested for resistance and seakeeping. The seakeeping performance of three of these models, both in regular and random waves, is presented and discussed in the paper 1 Introduction The seakeeping performance of any sea-going vessel should be assessed with respect to the sea states its mission requires to be able to operate in. Hence, describing,

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