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A Method to Determine Minimum Fore Draft of VLCC for Ballast Navigation in Shallow Waters

Xin Wang

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A method to determine the minimum fore draft for VLCC safe navigating in shallow water is presented in this paper, which is based on hydrodynamics of shallow water, theory of ship motions in waves, ship maneuvering theory and ship model test data.

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A method to determine the minimum fore draft for VLCC safe navigating in shallow water is presented in this paper, which is based on hydrodynamics of shallow water, theory of ship motions in waves, ship maneuvering theory and ship model test data.

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A method to determine the minimum fore draft for VLCC safe navigating in shallow water is presented in this paper, which is based on hydrodynamics of shallow water, theory of ship motions in waves, ship maneuvering theory and ship model test data.

Key concepts: Hull, Marine engineering, Ballast, Waves and shallow water, Engineering, Response amplitude operator, Geology, Oceanography

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