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Old 12-19-10, 12:30 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427 View Post
if memory serves me right, Skip Tyler in the book Hunt For Red October used a Cray supercomputer to test the theory that the Red October was using the magneto hydrodynamic drive that made it practically silent. Is that the same thing as you guys are doing here?
Our goal for the 688 was just to show that we can model a complicated free-surface flow. Given that goal, we did not include many details of the boat, and we just focused on the flow around the hull. -Doug.
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