The mathematics of ship slamming

<p>Motivated by the motion of a ship in a heavy sea, a mathematical model for the vertical impact of a two-dimensional solid body onto a half-space of quiescent, inviscid, incompressible fluid is formulated. No solutions to the full problem are known, but in the case when the impacting body ha...

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Main Authors: Wilson, S, Wilson, Stephen Kenneth
Other Authors: Ockendon, J
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 1989
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