Now showing items 1-10 of 51
A Survey Of Classical and New Marine Oil Spill Cleanup Response Methods
(University of Michigan, 1992-06-01)
This paper intends to give a global knowledge of marine oil spill cleanup response methods and techniques. It is mostly intended to answer the fundamental questions when, where, and how to apply the different methods. A ...
Recent Technical and Management Improvements in US Inland Waterway Transportation
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 1999-07-01)
Over the last several years, the US inland waterway transportation industry has significantly reduced its fuel consumption and improved its efficiency, with the side effect of less fuel tax collected per ton of cargo ...
DEREL: A Diesel Engine Reliability Database for the U.S. Coast Guard
(University of Michigan, 1998-05-01)
This report will address the problem of creating a computer database to collect engine failure data for the USCG. A review of several current shipboard reliability databases will be conducted along with a look at modern ...
Predicting Complicated Dynamics Leading to Vessel Capsizing
(University of Michigan, 1990-06-01)
This thesis represents an effort by one naval architect to analyze the important and practical age-old problem of nonlinear ship rolling motion and motion stability using the most modern methods available from other fields. ...
Michigan Conceptual Ship Design Software Environment - User's Manuals
(University of Michigan, 1998-07-01)
This report provides the User's Manuals for a set of programs developed to support the teaching of conceptual ship design within the University of Michigan's Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. These ...
Mooring Design Based on Catastrophes of Slow Dynamics
(University of Michigan, 1999-04-01)
Presented at the 8th Offshore Symposium, ENHANCING VALUE IN DEEPWATER DEVELOPMENTS, of the Texas Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, February 25-26, 1999, Houston, TX.&&The design of mooring ...
Improved methods for thin, surface boundary layer investigations
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1998-10)
New techniques are developed to improve the velocity flow-field measurement capability within a free-surface boundary layer region on which progressive capillary-gravity waves are present. Due to the extremely thin but ...
Nonlinear Radiation Problems for a Surface_piercing Body
(University of Michigan, 1992-11-01)
Chairperson: Robert F. Beck&&A Desingularized Eulerian-_Lagrangian Time_-domain Approach (DELTA method) is used to investigate fully nonlinear radiation problems of surface_piercing bodies. At each time step, a boundary-value ...
High speed digital imaging of cavitating vortices
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1998-05)
Researchers at the Cavitation and Multiphase Flow Laboratory of the University of Michigan worked in conjunction with Princeton Scientific Instruments (PSI) engineers to employ a new digital imaging system in the study ...
Seakeeping Standard Series for Oblique Seas (a Synopsis)
(Elsevier, 1999-08-25)
The seakeeping performance in oblique seas for a series of 72 cruiser-stern hull forms has been evaluated analytically and is presented in a systematic way. The hull form series have been created by Loukakis and Chryssostomidis ...