The objective of this work was to develop a general model of a marine towed system and to verify its accuracy by comparison with full-scale towed system measurements. Unlike other computer cable models, this model comprises a representation of both the towed body and towline. The model is completely general in that it will predict the steady-state three-dimensional behavior of the towed system in either a rectangular (straight ahead towing) or cylindrical (steady turn) coordinate system. Fully instrumented trials of a full-scale towed system provided data for correlation with the model. The results of the correlation study indicate that the model is capable of predicting the behavior (towed body orientation and forces, and towline spatial configuration and tension distribution) of the towed system with engineering accuracy.
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D. E. Calkins (1979) studied this question.
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