Side-Wall Effects on ship Wave Resistance

Wave Effects on Free Running Ship in Standard Zigzag Maneuver

On Kelvin ' s ship - wave pattern

When a concentrated pressure travels with constant velocity over the free surface of water, it carries with it a familiar pattern of ship waves. Let viscosity and surface tension be neglected, let the free-surface condition be linearized, let the depth of water be assumed infinite, and let initial transient effects be ignored. Then, as is well known, the wave motion everywhere can be found by s...

A Ship-borne Wave Recorder

Effects of Ship Motion on Ship Maneuvering in Waves

Ship maneuvering performance is typically predicted in calm water conditions. This provides very valuable information at the initial ship design stage. However, since the ship always sails in waves, the maneuvering performance of the ship in seaway may be significantly different from calm water condition. Therefore, if the effect of waves and the corresponding motion responses can be included i...

High Performance Ship Autopilot With Wave FilterThor

This paper describes the application of Lyapunov stability theory to automatic steering of ships. The motivation for using nonlinear control theory is that nonlinearities can be compensated for in a systematic manner. For instance, this allows the designer to design the autopilot system for a ship described by the nonlinear models of Norrbin (1963) and Bech and Wagner Smith (1969) both utilizin...