Abstract: Measurements have been obtained from both wind tunnel and towing tank tests which explain the poor streaming behaviour of certain proprietary cable fairings, which had caused severe towing difficulties at sea. A simple modification applied to the fairings showed marked improvement in behaviour in laboratory tests and in sea trials. The results show the importance of good fairing cross sectional shape in order to develop adequate hydrodynamic restoring moments, and demonstrate the mechanical factors causing friction between cable and fairing.
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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