Numerical Simulation for Hydrodynamic Behaviour of a Single Vessel in Regular Waves Using OpenFOAM

摘要

In an analysis of floating body's motion for ocean engineering, potential theory is known as a conservative method. However, This holds that viscous effects are neglected, which can deliver serious problems when predicting vessel's roll motions as well as complicated configurations such as the structures with moon pool, side-by-side moored vessels, and semi-submersible with deep draft need to be evaluated by more accurate methods other than potential theory in order to overcome inaccurate solutions which can be occurred by viscous effects.rnIn this study, CFD simulation for a single vessel is performed as an initial study for motion analysis of side by side vessels.