Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability
The threat of capsize in unpredictable seas has been a risk to vessels, sailors, and cargo since the beginning of a seafaring culture. The event is a nonlinear, chaotic phenomenon that is highly sensitive to initial conditions and difficult to repeatedly predict. In extreme sea states most ships de...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33047 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202009-211838/ |