Transport
Taming the destructive waves of Seattle ferries
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Your incredibly scenic island ferry ride is secretly eroding the surrounding coastline into oblivion. Because standard hulls generate massive, destructive wakes, naval architects use computational fluid dynamics to engineer specialized ferry bottoms that essentially cancel out their own wave energy, keeping delicate shorelines from being battered to pieces.
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