The steady motion of a flat ship, including an investigation of local flow near the bow / by R.P. Oertel

This thesis concerns the flow produced by a ship-like body moving steadily across the surface of a fluid. The relevant equations are linearized using the assumption that the body is "flat"; that is, that its length and breadth are much greater than its draft. This leads to an integral equation to determine the pressure distribution under the hull. Various simplifying limiting cases of this equation are discussed.