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Buoyancy and Stability

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High Speed Catamarans and Multihulls

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To develop the design of a multihull vessel, we must start by taking the initial ideas documented from Chap. 2, for example target length and displacement, and by developing the geometry of the hulls determine the hydrostatic characteristics, using some coefficients to guide the geometry.

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Yun, L., Bliault, A., Rong, H.Z. (2019). Buoyancy and Stability. In: High Speed Catamarans and Multihulls. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7891-5_3

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