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Boris Korvin-Kroukovsky

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  • A cargo ship passing the Golden Gate Bridge, near San Francisco.
    naval architecture
    / Ship motions in waves

    …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 segments. The total force and moment acting on the ship and the resulting motions were assumed to be the result of the integration of…

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    …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 segments. The total force and moment acting on the ship and the resulting motions were assumed to be the result of the integration of…

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