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Group of Marine Dynamics and Hydrodynamics > 2.1 Dynamics of Moored Floaters > Publications
Sutulo, S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2023), Special Issue: Ship dynamics and hydrodynamics, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 11, 911
Ship hydrodynamics and dynamics is a rather old traditional branch of applied mechanics and also of naval architecture. Typically, methods and theories developed in the former are applied to the latter aiming at the development of more advanced and efficient ships, and other marine vehicles and ocean structures.
The long development of ship hydrodynamics over many decades has crystalized in the following traditional scientific disciplines: resistance, propulsion, seakeeping and manoeuvrability. However, in the earlier stages of the development of the naval architecture the focus was given to such properties of a displacement ship as floatability, static stability and unsinkability. All these properties are analysed in ship hydrostatics and although the mentioned properties are fundamental, ship hydrostatics was given lately no attention presuming that all hydrostatic problems are solvable with relatively small efforts and the corresponding computations are performed routinely. But this is not true for the remaining disciplines listed above: those are constantly and intensely developed exploiting multiple theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches inspired by fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, theory of oscillations, data analysis, control theory and many other areas.
The present special issue contains 17 articles, one of which deals with some specific applications of ship hydrostatics to risk analysis, 3 papers belong to the area of ship resistance, 4to ship propulsion, 5 papers cover various aspects of seakeeping and 4 articles are rather dedicated to ship manoeuvrability. However, as can be seen from the more detailed review that follows in the next section, some papers are interdisciplinary and the above classification is approximate. It is also worthwhile to note that 9 papers out of 17 are extensively using methods and codes belonging to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
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