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.
The prediction, measurement, and analysis of wake wash from marine vessels
Vorhersage, Messung und Analyse der Ausbreitung von durch Hochseeschiffen verursachten Wellen
Marine Technology and Sname News ; 36 , 4 ; 248-260
1999
13 Seiten, 17 Bilder
Article (Journal)
English
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