
Geometry for Naval Architects
Description
Key Features
- Explains the basics of geometry as applied to naval architecture, with specific practical applications included throughout the book for real-life insights
- Presents traditional methods and computational techniques (including MATLAB)
- Provides a wealth of examples in MATLAB and MultiSurf (a computer-aided design package for naval architects and engineers)
- Includes supplemental MATLAB and MultiSurf code available on a companion site
Readership
Entry-level naval architects and researchers working in ship design and developing/using ship design software; supplemental use for students of naval architecture and marine engineering
Table of Contents
Section I: Traditional Methods
1. Elements of descriptive geometry
2. The hull surface - Graphic definition
3. Geometric properties of plane figures
Section II: Differential Geometry
4. Parametric curves
5. Curvature
6. Surfaces
Section III: Computer Methods
7. Cubic splines
8. Geometrical transformations
9. Bezier curves
10. B-splines and NURBS
11. Computer representation of surfaces
Section IV: Applications in Naval Architecture
12. Applications to naval-architectural software
13. Hull transformations by computer software
14. Conformal mapping
15. Answers to selected exercises
Product details
- No. of pages: 524
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2018
- Published: November 19, 2018
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780081003398
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081003282
About the Author
Adrian Biran
Dr. Biran has also worked as a project instructor in Romania at the Technical Military Academy and in Israel at the Ben Gurion University. He has taught subjects including Machine Design, Engineering Drawing, and Naval Architecture. He has authored several papers on subjects such as computational linguistics and computer simulations of marine systems and subjects belonging to Ship Design. He is also the author of Ship Hydrostatics and Stability, Second Edition (BH).