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High-Performance Ship

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Synonyms

High-performance boats; High-performance vessels; High-speed craft

Definition

High-performance ship is a general name of a ship with a significant advantage over a conventional draining-type ship to achieve high speed, good navigability, and economical efficiency.

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Development History

High-performance ships are completely or partially out of the water during high-speed navigation, to reduce water resistance, especially wave resistance, and greatly reduce the swaying of the hull caused by waves, which can effectively improve the ship’s speed and wave resistance. When the ship is at high speed, the buoyancy of the ship will not be used as the main factor to support the weight of the ship (Zhao and Xie 2009).

A series of new variations of high-performance ships have been developed in the last half century, including improved planing craft from the 1940s, hydrofoils from the 1950s, air-cushion vehicles and surface effect ships from the 1960s, small water...

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  1. School of Naval Architecture, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, People’s Republic of China

    Li Zou

  2. Naval and Ocean engineering college, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, People’s Republic of China

    Yong Zhao

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  1. Hadal Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

    Weicheng Cui

  2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China

    Shixiao Fu

  3. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University , Newcastle, UK

    Zhiqiang Hu

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  1. College of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

    A-Man Zhang

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Zou, L., Zhao, Y. (2019). High-Performance Ship. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_34-1

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