Ship&Offshore | Issue 05/2012
Measurements of hydrodynamic frictional resistance
BIOFILMS Structural roughness of a vessel’s hull may be caused either by the type of construction, service condition, poor application of anticorrosive and antifouling paints or micro- and macrofouling. The following is a continuation of the article by Bernd Daehne and Burkard Watermann from LimnoMar, the Laboratory for Aquatic Research, Hamburg, and Ulf Barkmann and Reinhard Schulze from the Ship Model Basin, Potsdam, which was published in the June issue of Ship&Offshore.