Marine Forensics: The Art and Science of Simulating Ships in Storms
(Room S320C)
28 Nov 17
3:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Historic vessels provide useful surrogates for modern vessels that can be discussed in the open literature with reduced concern for security or proprietary material. Simulating the motions of a vessel in waves, and the effects on the hull and everything aboard is a fairly complicated process. This paper describes the author’s pioneering work extending those analyses to ships in severe weather conditions where non-linear waves, combined with hurricane force winds illicit non-linear responses. Some of the unusual methodologies used to build out the simulation models will be discussed as they apply to the 4 vessels selected for this paper.