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Re:Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B f... by el_benhameen on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:46PM (#7770231)
That's absolutely fascinating. Do you have a source for further reading on those optimizations? I haven't been able to find anything with a bit of googling.
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Re:Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B f... by qq66 on Monday May 19, 2014 @07:10PM (#7770336)
This page has a link to an Excel spreadsheet that calculates optimum speed as a function of fuel price and other factors: http://www.intertanko.com/Members-Information/benchmark/Opti...
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Re:Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B f... by toomuchtodo on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:49PM (#7770246)
Unfortunately, most of the papers I found by googling are behind paywalls :(
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Re:Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B f... by v3rt on Monday May 19, 2014 @06:57PM (#7770281)
I for one would still appreciate a link - I think those of us on academic networks should be able to see most papers behind paywalls
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Re:Rolls-Royce is designing drone ships to challenge $375B f... by toomuchtodo on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:25PM (#7770624)
Google for "oil tanker algorithms"
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