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Study of damaged ship motions taking into account floodwater dynamics

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This paper presents an application of shallow water theory to describe the motion of floodwater inside a rolling ship in damage condition. The time domain theoretical approach to the coupled problems of ship and water inside compartment motions is briefly described, including the method used to solve for the water motion characteristics and forces exerted on the ship. This approach is applied to the study of the behaviour of a passenger Ro–Ro ship in regular beam seas and numerical results are given for the intact and damaged conditions. Comparison is made with experimental results. For the damaged condition, the characteristics of the floodwater motion are studied in the time domain for a number of different wave frequencies. The shape of the free-surface and phase of water motion in relation to the ship roll motion are shown for several wave frequencies. The dynamic floodwater roll moment is also shown and compared with the static roll moment (flat horizontal free surface), allowing the conclusion that the dynamic roll moment is much larger than the static roll moment, for high wave frequencies, and is in phase opposition in relation to the roll motion.

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This paper has been prepared within the project “MARSTRUCT—Network of Excellence on Marine Structures”, (http://www.mar.ist.utl.pt/marstruct/), which is being funded by the European Union through the Growth program under Contract TNE3-CT-2003-506141. The authors acknowledge the International Towing Tank Conference for its permission to reproduce graphical information contained in the report of the Specialist Committee on Prediction of Extreme Ship Motions and Capsizing published in the Proceedings of the 23rd International Towing Tank Conference.

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Santos, T.A., Guedes Soares, C. Study of damaged ship motions taking into account floodwater dynamics. J Mar Sci Technol 13, 291–307 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-008-0011-8

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