A Study on the Memory Effect of the Radiation Forces in the Maneuvering Motion of a Ship

The memory effect in maneuvering motion is very small and usually neglected. But, considering the maneuvering motion in waves, we need to calculate the memory effect strictly. Meanwhile. it is popular to treat the wave exciting forces as the steady sinusoidal forces and simply add to the right-hand side of the equation of the motion. This paper treats the memory effect in maneuvering motion when we take the wave exciting forces as the simple external forces and discuss the validity of such treatments.