Research Article

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

Table 6

Measured parameters of the single-step model.

V (m/s)FrBRise-up (mm)Z/V0.3τ (deg)RT (N)RT/Δ

10.43−1.321−0.00339.80.01
20.86−7.061−0.0164.2158.20.068
31.295.820.0136.8117.50.139
41.7227.200.0616.7130.50.154
52.1547.940.1086.5134.80.159
62.5866.890.1515.811310.155
73.0176.70.1735.15132.80.157
83.4480.20.1814.21136.80.162