Compendium of ship hydrodynamics

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The book offers concise and essential coverage of the science and engineering of ship hydrodynamics and has been developed for pragmatically inclined readers. Applications are presented to several types of ships, from merchant and military ships, from high speed craft to sailing boats, green ships and icebreakers, from FPSO to hybrid ships like wing in ground effect craft. The present work brings out findings not only in the main topics of ship hydrodynamics but also in such related topics as ship control and marine robotics exemplified by autonomous surface vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles and their avatars like robotic fishes. The work includes also the last developments of numerical methods.

Ce livre est une présentation concise des thèmes importants de la science et de la technologie de l'hydrodynamique des navires. Il est adapté aux lecteurs intéressés par les applications pratiques.Des applications sont présentées pour plusieurs types de bateaux, des navires marchands aux navires militaires, des navires à grande vitesse aux voiliers aux navires écologiques, aux navires brise-glace, des FPSO aux bateaux hybrides comme les avions ou avions à effet de sol.L'ouvrage présente des résultats non seulement dans les disciplines principales de l'hydrodynamique des navires mais également dans des disciplines étroitement liées telles que la commande des bateaux et la robotique marine représentés par les navires de surface autonomes, les véhicules sous-marins autonomes et leurs avatars comme les poissons robots.L'ouvrage inclut également les derniers développements en méthodes numériques.

Alumnus of Ecole polytechnique, Jean-Claude Dern had an activity of applied research in the civilian and military marine engineering especially at the DGA. He was Director of a large naval hydrodynamics laboratory and participated in several international working groups in various fields of ship hydrodynamics including the ITTC. Alongside his activities, he was lecturing at several schools of engineering.

 Alumnus of Ecole polytechnique, Jean-Marc Quenez had an activity of applied research in the civilian and military marine engineering especially at the DGA. He worked successively at Bassin d'essais des carènes (DGA/TH) in the field of Naval Ships hydrodynamics, at DCNS in submarine hydrodynamics more specifically applied to the French attack submarine Barracuda program and at GazTransport&Technigaz in developing new insulation containment systems for Methane Carriers. He is currently working at the DGA in the field of missiles.

Professor Philip Wilson of the University of Southampton has been active in the research of seakeeping and ship manoeuvring for more than 40 years thus the majority of his work has involved Marine Hydrodynamics. He has supervised 40 doctoral students in these field of research