APPLICATION OF NURBS SURFACES FOR PROPELLER GEOMETRY

SNAME 25th American Towing Tank Conference, ATTC 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 343-355

  Neely, Stephen K ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; SHIP PROPELLERS;

COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; HIGH QUALITY SURFACE; INSPECTION DATUM; NON UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINE SURFACE; SPLINE SURFACES; SURFACE REPRESENTATION; TOOLPATHS; TRAILING EDGES;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 85128079192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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