The Dynamics of Marine Craft: Maneuvering and Seakeeping

This book is intended to serve as an upper-level undergraduate or introductory-level graduate text for students of Naval Architecture or related fields. It is not a book about design of marine vehicles, but rather addresses the question, “How can we predict the dynamic performance of the vehicle, given its physical characteristics?” Thus the material should be of interest to present and future designers, since evaluation of maneuverabilitylcoursekeeping ability and performance in waves is of course an essential (though sometimes neglected) part of the infamous “design spiral” in naval architecture. In addition, the material should also be useful to those interested in simulation of vehicle performance, for training purposes or to conduct engineering studies. The emphasis is on hydrodynamics, since these are the predominant external forces acting on marine vehicles. Knowledge of differential and integral calculus, elementary differential equations, and complex numbers is presumed, as is familiarity with basic fluid mechanics and potential flow theory.
The treatment is not intended to be highly mathematical or theoretical; an outline of the theory is given but the emphasis is on exposition of practically useful results. To this end an attempt has been made to present results in the form of equations
(“curve fits”) rather than plots that do not lend themselves to automatic computation. Several fairly detailed worked examples are included.

Table of Contents

PREFACE .
CHAPTER 1 DYNAMICS OF RIGID BODIES
CHAPTER 2 CALM WATER BEHAVIOR OF MARINE VEHICLES AT ZERO SPEED: HYDROSTATICS
CHAPTER 3 CALM WATER BEHAVIOR OF MARINE VEHICLES WITH FORWARD SPEED: MANEUVERING
APPENDIX A PREDICTION OF WAKE FRACTION AND THRUST DEDUCTION
APPENDIX B COEFFICIENTS IN KT and K, POLYNOMIALS
APPENDIX C ROUTH-HURWITZ STABILITY CRITERION
CHAPTER 4 WATER WAVES
CHAPTER 5 WAVE-INDUCED FORCES ON MARINE CRAFT
CHAPTER 6 DYNAMICS OF HIGH SPEED CRAFT
1. Maneuverability
1.1 Transverse/directional stability, general
1.2 Transverse/directional stability, planing boats
1.2.1 Dynamic roll moment
1.2.2 Dynamic stability; effect of appendages Heave/pitch stability
1.3 Heave/pitch stability
1.4 Turning performance
2 . Seakeeping
2.1 Impact accelerations
2.2 Application: Habitability
2.3 Bottom pressure
3. Concluding Remarks
REFERENCES
INDEX

# Title : The Dynamics of Marine Craft: Maneuvering and Seakeeping
# Author : Edward M. Lewandowski
# Hardcover: 300 pages
# Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (December, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 9810247559

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