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The wakes of high-speed passenger-only ferries that operated through Rich Passage, on the Seattle-Bremerton ferry route, caused beach erosion and damage to habitat. A task was initiated to design a low-wake high-speed vessel using multi-fidelity CFD based design optimization by using low-fidelity potential flow solvers for initial global design optimization and by using URANS solvers for high-fidelity tuning of the optimized design. This simulation based design process involved a close collaboration between ship designers, and hydrodynamics and CFD specialists, whose collective expertise guided the evolution of the design based on both hydrodynamic and structural aspects. The initial hull shape optimization using potential flow code was carried out by blending three different initial concepts provided by the designers. Subsequently, URANS was used to evaluate the potential flow optimized hull and to further optimize the hull configuration parameters, namely, the centre-of-gravity, demihull spacing, foil location, foil angle and slenderness ratio at different displacement conditions. The URANS based configuration optimization also took into account the far field wakes’ energy spectrum with an objective of reducing the energetic, low frequency far field wakes which are associated with beach flattening on the mixed sand and gravel beaches. Calculation of the far field wake using URANS would require an unfeasibly large domain size; therefore, a Havelock code with a source distribution matching the URANS calculated near field wave elevation was used to propagate the wakes into the far field. The end result of the optimization was a design with significantly reduced far field wake, which is currently being built for experimental testing.
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Research by IIHR and INSEAN is sponsored by Pacific International Engineering PLLC contract # KT-05-343 under administration of Dr. Philip D. Osborne. The research is being funded under a federal grant program administered by Federal Transportation Administration (FTA-WA-26-7007-2005), designed to support research and investigations of emerging transportation systems. INSEAN is also partially supported by the research project “Programma di Ricerca sulla Sicurezza 2009”.
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Kandasamy, M., Peri, D., Ooi, S.K. et al. Multi-fidelity optimization of a high-speed foil-assisted semi-planing catamaran for low wake. J Mar Sci Technol 16, 143–156 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00773-011-0119-0
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