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Strip theory
(Material is taken from
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 Assumptions
 Strip theory considers a ship to be made up of a finite number of
transverse two dimensional slices, which are rigidly connected
to each other.
 Each slice is treated hydrodynamically as if it is a segment of an
infinitely long floating cylinder;

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 Assumptions
• All waves which are produced by the oscillating ship
(hydromechanic loads) and the diffracted waves (wave loads) are
assumed to travel parallel to the (y, z )-plane - of the ship.
• The fore and aft side of the body (such as a pontoon) does not
produce waves in the x -direction.
• For the zero forward speed case, interactions between the cross
sections are ignored.

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 Assumptions

Strip theory is valid for long and slender bodies only.

In spite of this restriction, experiments have shown that strip theory

can be applied successfully for floating bodies with a length to
breadth ratio larger than three, L / B  3 , at least from a
practical point of view.

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 Assumptions

The appearance of two-dimensional surge forces seems strange here. Then, the 2-
D hydrodynamic sway coefficients of this equivalent cross section are translated
to 2-D hydrodynamic surge coefficients by an empirical method based on
theoretical results from three-dimensional calculations and these coefficients are
used to determine 2-D loads

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 Account for the ship velocity

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 Force representation

Ordinary strip theory by Korvin-Kroukovsky & Jacobs

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 Mathematical problem formulation
The two-dimensional nature of the problem implies three
degrees of freedom of motion:
• vertical or heave,
• horizontal or sway and
• rotational about a horizontal axis or roll.

The following assumptions are made:

• the fluid is incompressible and inviscid,
• the effects of surface tension are negligible,
• the fluid is irrotational and
• the motion amplitudes and velocities are small enough that
all but the linear terms of the free-surface condition, the
kinematic boundary condition on the cylinder and the
Bernoulli equation may be neglected.

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 Mathematical problem formulation

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 Mathematical problem formulation

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 Frank‘s method of pulsating sources

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 Frank‘s method of pulsating sources

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 Frank‘s method of pulsating sources

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 Frank‘s method of pulsating sources

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 Frank‘s method of pulsating sources

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