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for a ship that is 150 meters long and exposed to a cross-flow wind velocity of 50 meters/sec?

April 26, 2017cross-flow meters sec ship velocity wind

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for a ship that is 150 meters long and exposed to a cross-flow wind velocity of 50 meters/sec?

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You would have to non-dimensionalise both the model ship geometry and wind speed. Let’s say you want the ship to occupy one third of a GfsBox, the reference length of the GfsBox would then be 3*150 meters, so you would scale the model geometry by a factor of 1/(reference length) or 1/450.