The Dynamics of Marine Craft
Subtitle: Maneuvering and Seakeeping
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789810247560
Subjects: Marine engineering; Technology; Mechanics - Dynamics - Fluid Dynamics; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Engineering - General; Ships & Shipbuilding - Engineering; Engineering - Mechanical; Hydrodynamics; Mathematics; Seakeeping; Ships
First sentence: In this text we will consider the ship to be a "rigid body", that is, it is "composed of a continuous distribution of particles having mutual distances that are inextensible" (Shames [1961]).