Research Article

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Stepped Planing Hulls in Finding an Optimized Step Location and Analysis of Its Porpoising Phenomenon

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Comparison of flow around two models in the numerical and experimental mode at 7 m/s speed: (a) the numerical model of a single step, (b) the experimental model of a single step, (c) the numerical model without a step, and (d) the experiment model without a step.
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