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Summary: Practical Hydrodynamics at last!
Review: "Practical Ship Hydrodynamics" is an outstanding book encompassing all the new developments in hydrodynamics, yet keeping a didactic style that makes the book an excellent support for those involved in teaching. The book's approach to resistance and propulsion, seakeeping and manoeuvring is sound and solid, first reviewing standard methods and later introducing most recent available CFD techniques. The author is surely familiar with problems encountered in teaching as this is reflected in the examples and exercises given for each topic.As a university lecturer working in a Spanish-speaking country I would like to see this book translated. My congratulations to the author. He did what the book title says: hydrodynamics with a practical view. Marcos Salas, Ph.D. Ship Science. Institute of Naval and Maritime Sciences, University Austral of Chile
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Summary: Easy...
Review: ... to understand and giving sufficient details to be a real help.
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Summary: Practical and useful
Review: As a teacher, I found this book really interesting for teaching and learning. As a researcher, I appreciate the practical use of this book. You can practice what you have learnt with the proposed problems.
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Summary: Excellent reference on ship hydrodynamics
Review: As Ph.D. student in Naval Architecture I found this book to be very informative, especially concernining practical aspects relating to application of CFD methods to ship design problems. The book covers resistance, propulsion, sea keeping and manœuvring in sufficient detail to be a good basis for more detailed research into the subject.
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Summary: Excellent reference on ship hydrodynamics
Review: As Ph.D. student in Naval Architecture I found this book to be very informative, especially concernining practical aspects relating to application of CFD methods to ship design problems. The book covers resistance, propulsion, sea keeping and manœuvring in sufficient detail to be a good basis for more detailed research into the subject.
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Summary: very helpful item
Review: I found this book really helpful in my research. Especially sections devoted to CFD basic techniques and manoeuring topics provived me very useful information. In my opinion this reference covers broad range of ship hydrodynamics subjects and is a great source of information not only for researchers but also for naval architecture students and industry engineers engaded in ship hydrodynamics. Web support with source codes and solutions to exercises is an excellent idea.
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Summary: Modern ship hydrodynamics...
Review: Quite often, in the field of ship design "practical" means oversimplification of the problem, bounding ship design to a sort of empirical art. This is not the case! This book, lively written with a nice balance between the description of the relevant physics and the rigorous mathematical foundation of the problems, leads the reader to approach ship design by sophisticated, though still feasible, methods. I think is a wonderful teaching tool! PhD students will find a large number of useful references. Finally, not of minor importance, it can be used by well trained naval architects to get quickly a basic understanding of modern CFD tools, their importance and limits.
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Summary: Modern ship hydrodynamics...
Review: Quite often, in the field of ship design "practical" means oversimplification of the problem, bounding ship design to a sort of empirical art. This is not the case! This book, lively written with a nice balance between the description of the relevant physics and the rigorous mathematical foundation of the problems, leads the reader to approach ship design by sophisticated, though still feasible, methods. I think is a wonderful teaching tool! PhD students will find a large number of useful references. Finally, not of minor importance, it can be used by well trained naval architects to get quickly a basic understanding of modern CFD tools, their importance and limits.
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Summary: Fine stuff
Review: This book is what I would have liked to have earlier for my
lectures. In spite of being comprehensive, it gives not only
a good overview about the physics and current computational
methods of the various fields of ship-related hydrodynamics,
but contains also a host of valuable ideas which are not well
known, and it concentrates on the important aspects within
each field. Many exercises show how to apply the facts and
methods to practical problems. A difficulty relates to viscous flow computations: Here specific
methods for naval architecture are hardly required; thus this
field is handled superficially only. For all other topics I
know of no other book of comparable quality.
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Summary: Practical Ship Hydrodynamics
Review: This book summarize all what is needed to understand the basics of ship hydrodynamics. This a good support for teaching up to PhD level. I should have liked to write this book.
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