Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects · 1985 · 17 citations · 0 references
EngineeringMarine EngineeringComputational Fluid DynamicsNaval ArchitectureShip DesignHydrodynamic ResponseShip HydrodynamicsSubsea HydrodynamicsHydrodynamic AnalysisHydrostatic AnalysisHydrostatic CharacteristicsHydrostatic ModelingSubmerged Bodies
The theory for calculating the hydrostatic characteristics of an arbitrary body by integrating the pressures over its submerged surface is presented. The theory describes a transformation of surface integrals to volume integrals which allows conventional naval architectural quantities to be derived directly from the integration of surface pressures. The theory is implemented in a general purpose program which can compute the hydrostatic characteristics of an arbitrary intact or damaged floating body after the body surface has been input as a series of panels.