TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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LIST OF FIGURES iii 



LIST OF TABLES iv 



NOTATION v 



ABSTRACT 1 



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



BLOCKAGE CORRECTION 3 



EXACT MEAN-SPEED INCREMENT 3 



APPROXIMATE MEAN-SPEED INCREMENT 6 



APPLICATIONS 8 



TOWING TANK EXPERIMENT 8 



WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT 15 



CONCLUSIONS 17 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT . . . , 19 



REFERENCES 21 



LIST OF FIGURES 



1 - Resistance Coefficients C„, C , and C 12 



1 W r 



2 - Corrected Values of (C -C ) from Small Tank o, 



1 w 



Large Tank x, and ITTC 1957 and ATTC Curves, 



% U 



3 - Velocity Potential for a Spheroid (a/b=4) in a Wind 



Tunnel with a Circular Cross Section of Radius R 16 



4 - Added Mass Coefficient m and Speed Correction Au/U 



for a Spheroid in a Circular Wind Tunnel 18 



