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Dynamics of Marine Vehicles

Chapter 3 – Sinusoidal Water Waves:

Topics:

1. Mathematical Foundation of the wave motion; Boundary conditions; Solution for a

monochromatic progressive wave (lecture notes)
2. Progressive wave; sinusoidal wave; velocity, length and period of waves (lecture notes)
3. Example – 3.5
4. Effect of depth (lecture notes)
5. Energy in waves (lecture notes)
6. Path of particles in deep water and in canal of finite depth (lecture notes)
7. A ship in waves (book)
8. Example – 3.7

Chapter 4 – Uncoupled Heave, Pitch and Roll Motion

1. Section 4.2 – Heaving (book & lecture notes)

2. Example 4.1, 4.3, 4.7 (book)
3. Section 4.4 – Pitching (book & lecture notes)
4. Example 4.9, 4.10 (book)
5. Section 4.5 – Rolling (book & lecture notes)
6. Example 4.17, 4.18, 4.22, 4.25 (book)

Chapter 5 – Irregular Seaway

1. Section 5.1 – Classification of seas (book)

2. Example 5.1
3. Section 5.2 – Irregularity of the seaway and the Histogram (book)
4. Example 5.2
5. Section 5.3 – Wave Spectrum (book)
6. Example 5.3
7. Section 5.4 – Prediction of an irregular Seaway; Standard Wave Spectrum (book)
8. Example 5.4

Chapter 6 – Motion in an irregular seaway

1. Section 6.1 – Response in an irregular seaway (book)

2. Example 6.1
 3. Section 6.2 – Prediction in an irregular seaway (Summary of all steps and details of Step 2, step
6)
4. Example 6.3

Chapter 7 – Dynamic Effects

1. Dynamics Effects (lecture notes)

2. Vertical Bow motion, Vertical Velocity, Vertical Acceleration (lecture notes)
3. Relative Bow motion, Relative bow velocity (lecture notes)
4. Relative Bow motion in an irregular seaway (lecture notes)
5. Deck wetness, Effect of static and dynamics swell up of water at the bow, probability of deck
wetness (lecture notes)
6. Slamming; Kinematic conditions to be investigated in study of slamming; probability of slamming
(lecture notes)
7. Motion of a V-shape wedge section (lecture notes)

Chapter - Manoeuvring Motion

1. Various kinds of motion stability

2. Linear Equations of Manoeuvring Motions
3. Zig-zag manoeuvre
4. Analysis of turning ability