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‘Underkeel Clearance’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
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I would like to comment on the change in underkeel clearance due to the motion of a ship in a seaway (A. F. Dickson, this Journal, 20, 363).
Captain Dickson, in his conclusions, states that known techniques do not allow underkeel clearance to be calculated when ship motion is present. In fact there are a number of reliable ways of calculating the motions of a ship in waves (for example References (1) and (2), which treat the case of pitch and heave) which may help in this problem. These methods usually assume the ship is in deep water and is heading directly into the waves which are further assumed to be long-crested; but I believe it may also be possible to make reliable calculations for shallow-water effects and for waves which are, in reality, short-crested.
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