Book Reviews
Shallow
ever since John Scott Russell wrote about references of research mostly residing
Water and
a barge being towed along a canal by a in Institution libraries, particularly in
horse. The horse was suddenly startled Russia, and probably not accessible
Supercritical
and bolted, towing the barge past the online. So this publication is a very useful
critical Froude depth number and leaving reference work for anyone involved in
Ships
the water disturbance and wash behind. boats and ships that work in shallow
Review by Nigel warren
As naval architects know (or should waters, and it is not a dinosaur!
know), get past the critical shallow The author is professor of the
water hump and the resistance and department of naval architecture,
shallow water and supercritical ships wash is less than in deepwater. What is State Marine Technical University, St
by A Lyakhovitsky less well known is that this led to a fast Petersburg, Russia. He co-authored
Backbone Publishing Company passenger transport system on the canals another similar book: Multi Hull Ships.
PO Box 562 of England, Scotland, and Ireland – all Also in the range published by Backbone
Fair Lawn horse drawn. Publishing Co are Small Waterplane Area
NJ 07410 Some say that books like this are Ships and Ships with Outriggers.
USA dinosaurs, that nowadays if you are All of these books are written in a
ISBN 978-09742019-5-5 looking for some specific topic you similar vein and, like the classic Hoerner’s
Hardback, 277 pages, 2007 reach for a search engine, not a book. Fluid Dynamic Drag, contain a multitude
7.5”x10” Not everything is on the web, however, of little graphs and tables to give quick
US$156.00 as this compendium contains extracts guidance to a specific problem. For
of research which is not on the Internet, instance, if you want to know the effect
because the work was published many on the residuary resistance of moving the
T
he topic of Shallow Water and years ago, but is still totally valid and centre hull of a trimaran forward of the
Supercritical Ships has been relevant. wing hulls at the critical speed in shallow
generating research documents The book also has a huge list of water, you will find it in this book.
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