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The Prediction of Ship Capsize: Not All Fractals Are Environment Friendly

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Applications of Fractals and Chaos

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An approach towards the classification of the stability of a ship is presented. This concept is based on the evaluation of the basin of transient attraction of the response of a ship in roll The determination of these basins allows us to summarise the global transient behaviour of the ship. A sudden erosion of these basins implies a loss of engineering integrity of the system, which can often happen at a wave height that is considerably smaller than that predicted by a steady state analysis. The analysis can be used to investigate the transient behaviour of a ship and can lead to guidelines which can be incorporated in ship hull design.

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  1. Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Road, N14 4XS, London, UK

    A. J. Crilly

  2. University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    Rae A. Earnshaw (Head of Computer Graphics) (Head of Computer Graphics)

  3. Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, N11 2NQ, London, UK

    Huw Jones

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Bishop, S.R., Soliman, M.S. (1993). The Prediction of Ship Capsize: Not All Fractals Are Environment Friendly. In: Crilly, A.J., Earnshaw, R.A., Jones, H. (eds) Applications of Fractals and Chaos. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78097-4_5

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