Coupling CFD with a Time-domain Ship Motions Method for Prediction of Slamming

摘要

This paper presents the results of a study to develop a pragmaticapproach for prediction of slamming loads to be used for calculation ofwhipping response. Impact loads on a number of discrete sections arepredicted using the open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)code OpenFOAM coupled via a pipeline to the time-domain shipmotions code Waveload-TD. Waveload-TD provides the relativemotion time history for each impact, and the time history of impactforce is calculated by the CFD. The numerical results obtained by themethod are compared against experiments.