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out restarting the computations. This can be exploited to minimize total run
time in case of such failures.
11.6.3 Towards real-time interactive ship simulation
A fast GPU-accelerated ship hydrodynamic model is developed for real-
time interactive ship simulation by modification of the unified potential flow
model presented in Section 11.3. The target scientific application is an inter-
active full mission marine simulator, where multiple ships controlled by naval
officers can navigate in a near-realistic virtual marine environment. Full mis-
sion simulators are used for education and training of naval officers in critical
maneuvering operations and for evaluation of ship and marine infrastructure
designs. To predict ...