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Seakeeping

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Areas of Expertise:

• Free running model experiments with planing craft, displacement vessels, and ocean platforms
  • Experiments in regular and irregular waves, and in calm water
  • Motions, velocities, accelerations, hydrodynamic impact loads and waves measurements
  • Radio controlled models or models tethered to one of several towing carriages
• Full scale trials with planing craft, displacement vessels, and ocean platforms
  • Seakeeping experiments in waves
  • Maneuvering experiments in calm water and waves
  • Portable or installed measurement systems
  • Specially configured onboard monitoring and operator guidance systems
  • Motions, velocities, accelerations, hydrodynamic impact loads and waves measurements
  • Ocean environments and vessel location measurements
• Analytic motion simulations of displacement vessels, including SWATH and ocean platforms
  • Frequency domain, time domain motions in waves
  • Three dimensional panel methods in extreme waves including capsize predictions
  • Time domain maneuvering and station keeping predictions
  • Hull form performance evaluations and optimization
• Analytic ocean environment predictions
  • Hindcast climatology predictions
  • Wave forecasting
  • Real time environmental monitoring and guidance
  • Multi-parameter spectral wave models for open ocean and shallow water
• Human factor evaluation
  • Human performance and ship environments monitoring
  • Limit criteria development for human performance
  • Performance limit predictions
• Operator guidance
  • Under keel clearance predictions of deep draft ships in shallow channels
  • Limiting wave height predictions for ships and ship systems
  • Real time displays of ship motions

Contact Information:

• Seakeeping

  Phone (301) 227-1107, Fax (301) 227-5442, Email code5500web.nswccd@navy.mil

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