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Computation of ship hydrodynamic interaction forces in restricted waters using potential theory

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A computer code based on the double-body potential flow model and the classic source panel method has been developed to study various problems of hydrodynamic interaction between ships and other objects with solid boundaries including the seabed. A peculiarity of the proposed implementation is the application of the so-called “moving-patch” method for simulating steady boundaries of large extensions. The method is based on an assumption that at any moment just the part of the boundary (“moving patch”) which lies close to the interacting ship is significant for the near-field interaction. For a specific case of the flat bottom, comparative computations were performed to determine optimal dimensions of the patch and of the constituting panels based on the trade-off between acceptable accuracy and reasonable efficiency. The method was applied to estimate the sway force on a ship hull moving obliquely across a dredged channel. The method was validated for a case of ship-to-ship interaction when tank data were available. This study also contains a description of a newly developed spline approximation algorithm necessary for creating consistent discretizations of ship hulls with various degrees of refinement.

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  1. Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (CENTEC), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa, 1049-001, Portugal

    Xueqian Zhou, Serge Sutulo & C. Guedes Soares

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Foundation item: Supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology under Grant No. PTDC/ECM/100686/2008.

Xueqian Zhou, born in 1980, got his BSc degree at Wuhan University of Technology, his MSc at the Technical University of Lisbon and is now a PhD student in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture. His current research interests include manoeuvring of hydrodynamically interacting vessels in restricted waters.

Serge Sutulo, born in 1949, got the MSc and PhD degrees in Ship Hydrodynamics from the St. Petersburg Marine Technical University and is now responsible for the field of ship manoeuvrability at the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical Unversity of Lisbon.

Carlos Guedes Soares received the M.S. and Ocean Engineer degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, the PhD degree from Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1984 and the Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1991. He is a Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and President of the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (CENTEC), a research center of the Technical University of Lisbon that is recognized and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He is presently an invited Professor of the Shipbuilding College of Harbin Engineering University.

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Zhou, X., Sutulo, S. & Guedes Soares, C. Computation of ship hydrodynamic interaction forces in restricted waters using potential theory. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 11, 265–275 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-012-1132-3

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