Department Diten – Dsa (Università degli studi di Genova)
Master’s Degree Yacht Design (Engineering)
Year/semester 1 / I Semester
Course title Yacht Dynamics
ID Course Code 66399
Course Credit (CFU) 6
Scientific-Disciplinary Sector Naval Architecture (ING/IND01)
Course Type Lectures
Professor Michele Viviani
Education objectives Definition of ship motion laws and
hydodynamic characteristics influencing ship behaviour in terms of manoeuvrability, seakeeping, dynamic stability.
Learning outcomes Manoeuvrability: Motion equations. Rectilinear Stability. Standard Manoeuvres. Model tests.
Existing Rules. Control Means.
Manoeuvrability of planing boats (overview).
Seakeeping: Motion Equations. Regular waves.
Added mass, Damping and Restoring matrices.
Numerical methods (overview). Typical Response Amplitude Operators. Irregular waves. Sea spectra. Ship Operability.
Seakeeping of planing boats (overview) Dynamic Stability: Introduction to the problem and simplified approaches
Assesment Hours
Lectures 48
Practice 12
Laboratory
Organization and examinations Teaching activities consist of 48 hours of lectures (about 22 for manoeuvrability., 22 for seakeeping and 4 for dynamic stability); some of the hours are devoted to workshops.
Oral Examination and discussion of exercises carried out during the course.
Prerequisite Naval Architecture, Mathematics, Physics
Bibliography references Principles of Naval Architecture, SNAME, 1988 Lecture notes
