Added resistance and seakeeping performance of trimarans in oblique waves

J Gong, S Yan, Q Ma, Y Li - Ocean engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Trimaran added resistance and seakeeping performance in oblique waves with strong
nonlinearity are rarely investigated. This paper presents the numerical investigations on …

The effect of side-hull position on the seakeeping performance of a trimaran at various headings

J Gong, Y Li, M Cui, Z Fu, Z Hong - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
As a kind of high-performance ship, compared with traditional mono-hull, the side-hull
position of a trimaran plays an essential role in the hydrodynamics and motion …

Experimental study on heave and pitch motion characteristics of a wave-piercing trimaran

KA Vakilabadi, MR Khedmati, MS Seif - Transactions of FAMENA, 2014 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak Dynamic behaviour of a trimaran vessel is investigated in this study. The body of the
trimaran is composed of a centre hull with a quite slender wave piercing bow profile (a …

Dynamics of a parametrically excited system with two forcing terms

A Sofroniou, S Bishop - Mathematics, 2014 - mdpi.com
Motivated by the dynamics of a trimaran, an investigation of the dynamic behaviour of a
double forcing parametrically excited system is carried out. Initially, we provide an outline of …

Effect of sailing directions on the coupled motion and stability of trimaran in waves

Z Fu, Y Li, J Gong, D Zhang, A Li - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Coupled motion is an important factor that affects the safety and stability of ships sailing in
waves, especially for rolling coupled with pitch motion. This paper simulates the motions of …

Nonlinear rolling stability and chaos research of trimaran vessel with variable lay-outs in regular and irregular waves under wind load

Y Zhang, P Wang, Y Liu, J Hu - Brodogradnja: An International Journal …, 2021 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak The trimaran vessel rolls strongly at low forward speed and may capsize in high sea
conditions due to chaos and loss of stability, which is not usually considered in conventional …

Study on the characteristics of trimaran seakeeping performance at various speeds

J Gong, Y Li, Z Fu, A Li, F Jiang - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2021 - Springer
Based on open-source CFD tool OpenFOAM and the hybrid-method solver qaleFoam, the
numerical study about the effect of sailing speed on the motion of trimaran in waves of …

Experimental investigation of trimaran models in shallow water

M Pavkov, M Morabitob - Journal of Ship Production and Design, 2014 - onepetro.org
Experiments were conducted at the US Naval Academy's Hydromechanics Laboratory to
determine the effect of finite water depth on the resistance, heave, and trim of two different …

Wave power generation using nonlinear roll-pitch coupling in a ship

MH Ansari, K Yerrapragada… - Smart Materials …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
When there is a two to one internal resonance ratio between the natural frequencies of the
pitch motion and the roll motion of a ship, a nonlinear energy transfer occurs between the …

Utilization of Nonlinear Resonance of Vessels for Ocean Wave Power Generation

K Yerrapragada, MA Karami - … and Information in …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents a method to utilize the pitch-roll nonlinear energy transfer phenomenon
in vessels for off-shore wave power generation. This paper builds on an existing design …