Silverseas is a class apart

摘要

The distinctive hydrodynamic design approach of the Silversea vessel was that hull and propeller have been designed during the optimisation loop in parallel, carried out by means of an extensive use of fully viscous codes. This approachrnyielded to significant improvements in the total efficiency and in the quality of the wake pattern. These computational fluid dynamics (CFD) viscous tools were used as well to design a new type of efficient propellers suitable to operate in an optimum wake field without any kind of cavitation on the blades or cavitating tip vortex.