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Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability

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dc.contributor.authorStory, William Roberten
dc.contributor.committeechairMcCue-Weil, Leigh S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBrown, Alan J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNeu, Wayne L.en
dc.contributor.departmentAerospace and Ocean Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:37:47Zen
dc.date.adate2009-06-10en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:37:47Zen
dc.date.issued2009-04-29en
dc.date.rdate2009-06-10en
dc.date.sdate2009-05-20en
dc.description.abstractThe threat of capsize in unpredictable seas has been a risk to vessels, sailors, and cargo since the beginning of a seafaring culture. The event is a nonlinear, chaotic phenomenon that is highly sensitive to initial conditions and difficult to repeatedly predict. In extreme sea states most ships depend on an operating envelope, relying on the operator's detailed knowledge of headings and maneuvers to reduce the risk of capsize. While in some cases this mitigates this risk, the nonlinear nature of the event precludes any certainty of dynamic vessel stability. This research presents the use of Lyapunov exponents, a quantity that measures the rate of trajectory separation in phase space, to predict capsize events for both intact and damaged stability cases. The algorithm searches backwards in ship motion time histories to gather neighboring points for each instant in time, and then calculates the exponent to measure the stretching of nearby orbits. By measuring the periods between exponent maxima, the lead-time between period spike and extreme motion event can be calculated. The neighbor-searching algorithm is also used to predict these events, and in many cases proves to be the superior method for prediction. In addition to the ship stability research, the Lyapunov exponents are used in conjunction with bifurcation analysis to determine regions of stable behavior in strange attractors when the system parameters are varied. The boundaries of stability are important for algorithm validation, where these transitions between stable and unstable behavior must be accounted for.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05202009-211838en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202009-211838/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33047en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartWilliamStoryThesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectLyapunoven
dc.subjectStabilityen
dc.subjectShipen
dc.subjectnonlinearen
dc.subjectdynamicsen
dc.titleApplication of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stabilityen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineAerospace and Ocean Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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