Configuration of Towed Cable during Ship Moving in Circular Path

摘要

A mathematical model in cylindrical coordinate system for researchingon the configuration of underwater towed cable during ship turningmaneuvers is presented in this paper. The configuration of towed cableis obtained by numerical integration of motion equations for towedcable, using MATLAB program and fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.Different situations are discussed by changing the major influencingparameters. A lumped parameter model for towed array system ispresented. The results of our MATLAB program are successfulcompared to OrcaFlex data, to the results of full-scale experiments andto those calculated from finite difference schemes.