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This chapter reviews some of the physical characteristics of planing, some well known and well understood and others not well known nor well understood. The FORTRAN program VsSea has been used in supporting this undertaking. VsSea is useful in establishing orders of magnitude of performance variables, but like all engineering tools, it cannot be expected to produce precision, and engineering precision is not needed for engineering design of planing craft. As versatile as it is, VsSea does not deal with time-varying boat speed except in a quasi-static approximation where the speed varies discontinuously in steps of steady speed.
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Vorus, W.S. (2017). Calm Water Mechanics. In: Hydrodynamics of Planing Monohull Watercraft. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39219-6_4
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