Saturday, November 22, 2008

Reader Search Results Today on the Scientific Study of Motion Sickness and Related Hull Design for Seakeeping

Well, today among many hits, I had indication of the following useful and related independent reader searches from Spain, New York, and Croatia. The common theme in these is the scientific study of motion sickness and vessel hull design to minimize motion, with a side focus on related ferries that may be for sale. It turns out the Natchan Rera and World were two of the most thoroughly designed and studied HSV's in the world on this matter. Scientific links are below:

Location
Country: Spain

State/Region: Islas Baleares
City: Santa Eulalia Del Ro

Language
Spanish
Time of Visit
Nov 22 2008 4:59:38 am
Referring URL
http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q=research%20into%20travel%20sickness&btnG=Buscar%20con%20Google&meta
Search Engine
google.es
Search Words
research into travel sickness
Visit Entry Page
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2008/08/another-bloggers-research-into-motion.html

The above search pulls down the following useful scientific links on motion sickness:

1) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/motionsickness.html
2) http://www.motion-sickness.co.uk/
3) http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/569057/05/08/New-Help-for-Travel-Sick-Dogs-from-Pfizer.html


Location
State: New York

City: Bronx
Time of Visit
Nov 22 2008 10:42:29 am
Referring URL
http://www.google.com
Search Engine
google.com
Search Words
roll inertia natchan rera
Visit Entry Page
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/

The above search pulls down the following interesting article from Marine Log in Sept. 2007. Page 2 of the article begins a technical discussion on motion based on ferry vessel design:

http://www.allbusiness.com/transportation/marine-transportation-ferries/5513309-1.html

The above article mentions the following document and author, "Seakeeping of Wave Piercing Catamarans" by Gary Davidson which prompts the following useful search results:

1) SEAKEEPING PERFORMANCES OF A LARGE WAVE-PIERCING CATAMARAN IN BEAM WAVES http://www.marine.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~lab15/papersearch/papers/PDF/2008-002.pdf

2) A Method to Determine Safe Seakeeping Limitations of a High-Speed Craft by Comparative Studies of Model Experimental Results http://www.marine.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~lab15/papersearch/papers/PDF/2008-004.pdf

3) MOTION SICKNESS PREDICTION OF A WAVE PIERCING CATAMARAN AT SEAS http://watlab.lin.vlaanderen.be/imsf/papers/paper09_chihchung_chang_chen.pdf

4) GLOBAL & SLAM LOADS FOR A LARGE WAVEPIERCING CATAMARAN DESIGN http://www.amc.edu.au/system/files/Giles.Thomas.FAST05b.pdf

5) Global Loads Derivation of Large High Speed Vessels http://www.amc.edu.au/system/files/Giles.Thomas.Pacific06.pdf

6) EVALUATION OF FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AS A TOOL TO PREDICT SEA LOADS WITH THE AID OF TRIALS DATA http://eprints.utas.edu.au/7001/1/Amin_paper.pdf

7) Evaluation of seakeeping and motion characteristics of the Royal Australian Navy wave-piercing catamaran, HMAS Jervis Bay http://dspace.dsto.defence.gov.au/dspace/handle/1947/2298


Location
Country: Croatia

State/Region: Grad Zagreb
City: Zagreb

Language
Croatian (hr)
Time of Visit
Nov 22 2008 7:28:17 am
Referring URL
http://www.google.hr/search?hl=hr&q=incat+wave+piercing+catamaran+ferry+used+sale&start=0&sa=N
Search Engine
google.hr
Search Words
incat wave piercing catamaran ferry used sale
Visit Entry Page
http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2007/09/recent-case-study-nzs-lynx-fast-ferry.html


Nice to have a team of researchers from around the world for direction on this, ;)
Aloha, Brad

2 comments:

黄浦三号 said...

In China we use dried plum to prevent seasickness. Not to eat it, but put dried plum on your bellybutton with a Chinese medicine tape to fix it. It works for Chinese people. No idea for how does it work for your western guys.

Mauibrad said...

Very good. I think I had heard of the plum remedy once before here in Hawaii. You must be one of the people from Shanghai where I have noticed this blog has a couple of readers.

I have some more to put up about the Motion Sickness Incidence (MSI) mentioned in some of those studies particularly out of Japan. I have been studying the MSI and will do a post on it soon.

Aloha, Brad