ABSTRACT
A marine structure or vehicle interacts with the marine environment in which it works and operates such that the mission requirement is adequately satisfied. The technical aspects of design must include considerations which are primarily hydrodynamic in nature. A vehicle design also includes the requirement of mobility of the vehicle in water. Marine vehicle design has evolved over hundreds of years, and ship designs have refined adequately to cope with changes in technology. This technical design process has served as a guide to design fixed and floating structures such as oil rigs and other platforms at sea, suitably altering technical requirements based on operational issues. This chapter discusses various issues related to hydrodynamics affecting ship design, which may be extrapolated to designing other sea structures.
