Numerical Analysis of Added Resistance on Ship in Parametric Roll Motions

In the present study, the added resistance of a containership in parametric roll motion is investigated. The numerical simulation is carried out using a three dimensional Rankine panel method along with the weakly nonlinear formulation. The added resistance is evaluated by a near-field method, namely, the direct integration of the 2nd-order pressure on a body surface. To calculate the component resulting from the large-amplitude roll motion, the higher-order restoring and Froude-Krylov forces on wetted hull surfaces are taken into account. With or without parametric roll in regular waves, the components of added resistance classified with respect to integral terms are compared to figure out the important of each term. Through the investigation, the correlation between the added resistance and parametric roll is derived from coupling and decoupling the components of roll motion and vertical motions.

Improvement of Rankine Panel Method for Seakeeping Prediction of a Ship in Low Frequency Region

Rankine panel methods have been studied for solving 3D seakeeping problems of a ship with forward speed and oscillatory motions. Nevertheless, there is a drawback in the numerical method for satisfying the radiation condition of outgoing waves at low frequencies, because the waves generated ahead of a ship reflect from the outward computational boundary and smear the flow around the ship. The so-called panel shift technique has been adopted in the frequency-domain Rankine panel method, which is effective when the generated waves propagate downstream of a ship. In this paper, in addition to this conventional panel shift method, Rayleigh’s artificial friction is introduced in the free-surface boundary condition to suppress longer wave components in a computational region apart from the ship. With this practical new method, it is shown that there is no prominent wave reflection from the side and/or upstream computational boundaries even in the range of low frequencies. As a consequence, the unsteady pressure, hydrodynamic forces, wave-induced ship motions, added resistance are computed with reasonable accuracy even in following waves and in good agreement with measured results in the experiment using a bulk carrier model which is also conducted for the present study.

Numerical Study on Added Resistance Computations in Short Waves

Evaluation of added resistance in short waves is critical to the assessment of the global performance of a ship traveling in a seaway. In this paper, three methods of added resistance evaluation in short waves are briefly reviewed, including those proposed by Fujii & Takahashi [1], Faltinsen et al. [2], and Kuroda et al. [3]. Based on the experimental data collected by Kuroda et al., a new method is developed for the estimation of added resistance in short waves. The proposed method is validated by comparing the obtained numerical results with experimental data and other numerical solutions for different types of hulls, including the Wigley hull I, KVLCC2 hull, Series 60 hull with CB = 0.7, and the S-175 hull. The present study confirms that the developed method can well predict the added resistance in short waves and complement the three-dimensional Rankine panel method developed in a previous study focusing on intermediate and long waves.

A 3D Higher Order Time Domain Rankine Panel Method for Wave-Current Interaction

The wave-current effects are very important in several offshore applications, for instance, the wave-drift-damping of a Turret moored FPSO. This papers presents the incorporation of current effects in the higher order time domain Rankine Panel Method on development in the Numerical Offshore Tank (TPN) at the University of São Paulo (USP) already introduced in [1]. The method is based on a perturbation theory to study first and second order effects, considering the geometry described using NURBS (Non Uniform Rational Basis Spline) and the potential function, free surface elevation, pressure etc by B-splines of arbitrary degree. The study is performed for a simplified geometry (sphere) and the results regarding a fixed hemisphere compared to other numerical methods considering both first and second order quantities are presented.