THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE HULL FORM WITH THE MINIMUM WAVE MAKING RESISTANCE BASED ON RANKINE SOURCE METHOD

The hull form optimization concerns one of the most important applications of wave making resistance theories. In order to obtain a hull form with the minimum wave making resistance, an optimization design method based on the CFD is proposed, which combines the Rankine source method with the nonlinear programming （NLP）. The bow-body shape is optimized with the minimum wave making resistance as the objective function. A hull form modification function is introduced to represent an improved hull surface, which can be used to generate a new smooth hull surface by multiplying it by the offset data of the original hull surface. The parameters of the hull form modification function are taken as the design variables. Other constraint conditions can also be considered, for example, in optimizing the lines of the bow, appropriate displacements can be taken as the basic constraints. S60 hull form is selected as the original hull. Three improved hulls are obtained by optimal design. Rankine source method proves to be an effective method in ship form optimization based on analysis of the resistance performance and lines of the improved hull.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF WAVE RESISTANCE OF TRIMARANS BY NONLINEAR WAVE MAKING THEORY WITH SINKING AND TRIM BEING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

Up to now, there are no satisfactory numerical methods for simulating wave resistance of trimarans, mainly due to the difficulty related with the strong nonlinear features of the piece hull wave making and their interference. This article proposes a numerical method for quick and effective calculation of wave resistance of trimarans to be used in engineering applications. Based on Wyatt＇s work, the nonlinear free surface boundary condition, the time domain concept, and the full nonlinear wave making theory, using the Rankine source Green function, the 3-D surface panel method is expanded to solve the trimaran wave making problems, with high order nonlinear factors being taken into account, such as the influence of the sinking and trim, transom, and ship wave immersed hull surface. And the software is successfully developed to implement the method, which is validated. Several trimaran models, including a practical trimaran with a sonar dome and the transom, are used as numerical calculation samples, their wave making resistance is calculated both by the present method and some other methods such as linear （Dawson） methods. Moreover, sample model resistance tests were carried out to provide data for comparison, validation and analysis. Through the validation by model experiments, it is concluded that present method can well predict the wave making resistance, sinking and trim, and the accuracy of wave making resistance calculation is significantly improved by taking the trim and sinking into account, especially at high speeds.

WAVE MAKING COMPUTATION IN TIME DOMAIN FOR MULTI-HULL SHIPS

A method Green function satisfying of three-dimensional time domain linear conditions at free surface and body surface boundary was employed to analyze the wave resistance and wave profile of a displacement multi-hull ship. The wave profile induced by a moving time domain point source was compared with those by a Havelock source, and satisfactory results were obtained. The panel method based on the time domain source distribution on the ship mean wetted hull surface was used to perform the wave making com- putations tbr mono-hull ships, catamaran and trimaran. Reasonable results were also obtained. Using the numerical method the wave profile simulations of multi-hull ships for a given Froude number were conducted.

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NUMERICAL RESEARCH ON UNSTEADY SHIP WAVE MAKING PROBLEMS IN TIME-DOMAIN

A time domain Kelvin source high order panel method based on NURBS is developed and applied to solve the unsteady wave making problems. Numerical results of instant wave resistance and free surface elevation are presented and compared with the availaby results by other authors, for submerged spheroid and sphere beneath the free surface and for surface ship of Wigley models moving with unsteady speed. The agreement is satisfying.

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Numerical simulation of dynamic characteristics of a water surface vehicle with a blended-wing-body shape

The blended-wing-body shape vehicle is a new type of water surface vehicle with a large square coefficient. The interference of the wave systems under a high speed condition is more significant for the blended-wing-body shape vehicle and the dynamic characteristics of the new type vehicle are very different from that of a traditional vehicle. In this paper, the implicit volume of fluid（VOF） method is adopted to simulate the wave resistance of the high speed blended wing body vehicle, and a semi-relative reference frame method is proposed to compute the maneuvering coefficients. The effects of the navigation speed, the drift angle and the rotating radius are studied. The dimensional analysis method is used to assess the influence of Fr and L/R on the results. The wave making resistance coefficient against the speed sees a large fluctuation because of the serious wave interference. The lateral rotation maneuvering characteristics under the surface navigation condition is nonlinear and more complex than under the under water condition, which is quite different to control.