Ship's hull form coefficients

(At preliminary merchant ship design)

Introduction

HELLO!

Herein I present a form to get basic hull form coefficients of merchant ships, following the formulae and concepts explained in Refs. 1 and 2, in order to serve as a guidance in the preliminary stage of a ship's design.

The main goal of this form is to get reasonable values of block (CB), midship section (CM) and loadline (CW) coefficients to be used in the different modules presented in the program Arqnaval, enclosed to the book Ref.2, and the program Getxonaval, being under construcion, to be used on-line via any browser, both intended to offer approximate and quick calculation methods in the preliminary stage of a ship design.

Some additional coefficients are also calculated and displayed in the enclosed form, of a lesser interest but that can also be of some utility.