A manual of naval architecture. For the use of officers of the Royal Navy, officers of the Mercantile Marine, shipbuilders, shipowners, and yachtsmen (1889)
White, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1845-1913 · London, J. Murray · leaf 464
eases, and at some distance athwartship thedeparture of the stream-lines from parallelism with the keel, evenwhen passing the ship, would be very slight indeed. As thestreams move aft from the bow, they become narrowed, havingtheir minimum breadth amidships, where the speed of flow is amaximum.… … So much for a vessel wholly submerged; a ship only partlyimmersed would be differently situated, because even in a fric-tionless fluid she would produce surface disturbance. At thebow, where the streams broaden and move more slowly, a wavecrest will be formed, of the character shown in Fig. 120;…
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