In the marine environment, wake wash from passing vessels can be detrimental to a shoreline environment, damage shoreline property and disturb or damage other marine operations. Slowdowns to prevent such impact can hamper or curtail high-speed vessel operations that depend on speed for successful service. To prevent this failure, low-wash vessel designs are needed and success must be assured before significant dollar investments are made. This paper describes: establishment of no harm wash criteria, prediction of wash using computational fluid dynamics for various speeds of high-speed aluminum catamarans, techniques of measurement and analysis of the wash from actual vessels, and agreement between wash predictions and wash measurements. This paper documents a successful program which Washington State Ferries used to procure new, high-speed environmentally friendly passengers ferries for operation on Puget Sound.


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    Title :

    The prediction, measurement, and analysis of wake wash from marine vessels


    Additional title:

    Vorhersage, Messung und Analyse der Ausbreitung von durch Hochseeschiffen verursachten Wellen


    Contributors:
    Stumbo, S. (author) / Fox, K. (author) / Dvorak, F. (author) / Elliot, L. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    13 Seiten, 17 Bilder



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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