This was in January, and Frank said, 'Can you come here May 6?' I didn't know anything. So he writes the date on a business card and hands it to me and says, 'Two things just happened: One, you got a reservation at Rao's which is no small deal. Two, you can always get a reservation at Rao's. I love you. [Abbot makes a kissing sound.] Both cheeks."

Good guy. I like him. He's okay. I could sit with Peter King and say what I like and what I don't like. I'm a political junkie," Frank says. There's a letter from President George H.W. Bush on the wall. Frank doesn't discriminate. I say to my wife, 'I wish I had a Rao's to go to. I wish I had a Rao's to go hang out in, to go sit at the bar and meet wonderful people, and then sit down and have a wonderful meal," he says. I can see why. The Froude–Krylov force, which is the pressure in the undisturbed waves integrated over the wetted surface of the floating vessel. The Diffraction forces, which are pressures that occur due to the disturbances in the water because of a body being present.She doesn't eat shellfish or meat," I say, louder this time. "But I eat everything and I want to try what you're known for." It's 10:20 p.m. We've been here since 7:45, but the hours have gone by in a flash and I have no desire to give up my bar stool and leave the center of all the action. The tables are "owned" by regulars and "no one gives them up," says Rao's owner Frank Pellegrino. "In every three-month period, I see all my clients. And now I'm dealing with their children and grandchildren."

The first thing I noticed when we walked in was how bright the place is. It may be the brightest fine-dining establishment I've ever been to. The second thing I noticed was all the Christmas decorations (a story I'd read said they stay up year-round). Every chair at every table was full and the bar was crowded. An older bespectacled man sat on a stool in the corner, surveying the room, and motioned to suggest we sit at the two stools open next to him. As well as displacement RAOs, which directly specify the motion of a vessel in waves, OrcaFlex can apply wave load RAOs, which represent instead the load (force and moment) on a vessel due to waves. In this case, the amplitude represents the magnitude of the force (in the surge, sway or heave direction) or moment (in the roll, pitch or yaw direction); the meaning of the phase remains unchanged. Example:M + A ( ω ) ] x ¨ + B ( ω ) x ˙ + C x = F ( ω ) {\displaystyle {\big [}M+A(\omega ){\big ]}{\ddot {x}}+B(\omega ){\dot {x}}+Cx=F(\omega )} As it turns out, Frank sang in a group called the Holidaes in the 1960s. "I was an old doo-wop guy," he says. "I get Billy Joel, Sting, Jimmy Fallon in here. Jimmy Fallon loves to sing doo-wops! So whenever he's here, I start singing, and boom, he jumps up and starts singing. And before you know it the whole room is going nuts." Anthony! This is Anthony Abbot," Frank says. "He's a member of Stanwich, a great golf club. He invites me to play golf with him." Abbot went on a golf trip with 11 other guys 20 years ago. Frank was one of them, and when names were drawn out of a hat, he and Abbot were matched up. Where x {\displaystyle x} is a rigid body motion such as heave, ω {\displaystyle \omega } is the oscillation frequency, M {\displaystyle M} is the structural mass and inertia A ( ω ) {\displaystyle A(\omega )} is the added mass (frequency dependent), B ( ω ) {\displaystyle B(\omega )} is the linear damping (frequency dependent), C {\displaystyle C} is the restoring force coefficient (stiffness matrix) and F ( ω ) {\displaystyle F(\omega )} is the harmonic excitation force proportional to the incoming wave ζ = ζ a e i ω t {\displaystyle \zeta =\zeta _{a}e

A surge RAO of 0.5 in a wave of height 4m (and hence wave amplitude 2m) means that the vessel surges to and fro -1m to +1m from its static position; a pitch RAO of 0.5° per metre in the same wave means that the vessel pitches from -1° to + 1°. RAOs can be obtained either from model tests or from diffraction analysis software. The data may be presented in tabular or graphical form: tables of numbers are better for our purposes since they can be imported directly into OrcaFlex (see importing hydrodynamic data). A surge force RAO of 300 kN/m in a wave of height 6m (and hence wave amplitude 3m) means that a vessel experiences a surge force varying harmonically between -900kN and +900kN over each wave cycle; a pitch moment RAO of 1e6 kN.m/m in the same wave means that the vessel experiences a moment about the y axis varying from -3e6 kN.m to +3e6 kN.m. And you would be protected," he tells her. "I am a gentleman and I only allow gentlemen. If anybody is stupid, I would be right there. I only allow ladies and gentlemen. I don't want anything else." The reference time for phase angles, and the reporting convention used (e.g. whether phases are reported as lags or leads). Again, OrcaFlex allows a range of options.

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Additionally, RAOs are amplitude operators which enables to determine amplitude of motion based on a unitary wave. They are superposable, thus effective on sea state based probability solutions. No one gives them up," he says. "Every table has been booked every night for the past 38 years. There's weeklies, biweeklies, monthlies, and quarterlies, so in every three-month period, I see all my clients. And now I'm dealing with their children and grandchildren." I am married 46 years," he says. "Same woman. She's great. I love my wife. 46 years. Does she come here? No. I don't want her here. When I come here, I work. What am I going to do? Sit with her at the bar? I have people I have to talk to, things I have to do." Frank looked around the room. "That first table there, they gave their table to this group at the bar. These guys are all executives from PepsiCo. If you have a table, you can give it to your friends, your business associates, or to a charity auction. I had Bobby Flay, Michael Romano, a whole bunch of big chefs last week and I didn' t know they're coming. I never know who's coming in. That's what makes it wonderful. It's serendipity. There's no grand design or plan. The only caveat is if you're not going to use your table and no one else is going to use that table, that's when you call me." Just think about what happened while you were here," he tells me, putting his hand on my forearm for emphasis. "You met my tailor. You met Tony Tantillo. You met Tony Abbot." (I met a trio of Tonys, if you include Tony the bartender.) "You met all these people. You met the congressman. You're seeing Rao's." And because it's so bright, which Frank says is because "it adds to the energy of the room," I really am seeing everything.