rolling

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In naval architecture: Ship motions in waves
The theory of rolling was developed in the 19th century by Froude. The theory of coupled pitching and heaving is more recent, stimulated by the work of Boris Korvin-Kroukovsky in the 1950s, who applied a so-called “strip” method in which the ship was divided longitudinally into strips or…
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