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High resolution ship hydrodynamics simulations in open source environment

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The numerical simulation of wake and free-surface flow around ships is a complex topic that involves multiple tasks: the generation of an optimal computational grid and the development of numerical algorithms capable to predict the flow field around a hull. In this paper, a numerical framework is developed aimed at high-resolution CFD simulations of turbulent, free-surface flows around ship hulls. The framework consists in the concatenation of “tools”, partly available in the open-source finite volume library OpenFOAM®. A novel, flexible mesh-generation algorithm is presented, capable of producing high-quality computational grids for free-surface ship hydrodynamics. The numerical frame work is used to solve some benchmark problems, providing results that are in excellent agreement with the experimental measures.

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    Norman Del Puppo

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Norman Del Puppo is presently a PhD candidate at School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste. His research interests include computational ship hydrodynamics, hull form optimization and grid generation based on OpenFOAM.

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Del Puppo, N. High resolution ship hydrodynamics simulations in open source environment. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 13, 377–387 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-014-1278-2

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