Nonlinear rolling of ships in regular beam seas

Ali H. Nayfeh, A.A. Khdeir

International Shipbuilding Progress · 1986 · 77 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

A second-order approximate solution is obtained for the nonlinear established harmonic roll of a ship in regular beam seas. The perturbation solutions are compared with solutions obtained by numerically solving the nonlinear governing equations. The