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Jordi Renau Martínez, Víctor García Peñas, Manuel Ibáñez Arnal, Alberto Giménez Sancho, Eduardo López González, Adelaida García Magariño, Félix Terroba Ramírez, Francisco Javier Moreno Ayerbe and Fernando Sánchez López
This article presents the design and manufacturing of a hydrogen-powered unmanned aquatic surface vehicle (USV) hull. The design process comprised three stages: (1) defining the requirements for a preliminary geometry, (2) verifying the hydrodynamic hull...
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Ruosi Zha, Kai Wang, Jianglong Sun, Haiwen Tu and Qi Hu
In this paper, the ditching performance of a seaplane model on calm water and a uniform water current coupled with wind was numerically investigated. The overset grid technique was applied to treat the large amplitude of the body motions of the seaplane ...
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Héctor Rubén Díaz Ojeda, Sebastian Oyuela, Roberto Sosa, Alejandro Daniel Otero and Francisco Pérez Arribas
Naval hydrodynamics typically focus on reducing ship resistance, which can be achieved by incorporating a bulbous bow. This feature is commonly used in the merchant fleet and smaller vessels, such as fishing boats, to minimize wave-making resistance. How...
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Nicola Petacco and Paola Gualeni
Intact stability represents one of the most important topics when addressing ship safety, and it is ruled by the IMO Intact Stability code, evaluating ship stability in a calm water scenario. However, the interest in ship stability in waves has increased...
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Gu-Hyeon Kim, Seunghyun Hwang, Soon-Hyun Lee, Jun-Hee Lee, Jun Hwangbo, Kwang-Soo Kim and Kwang-Jun Paik
Accurate resistance performance evaluation is essential to predict the minimum propulsion horsepower required for ships in real sea. Therefore, in this paper, the added resistance performance of K-Supramax in various wave conditions was calculated using ...
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Emanuele Spinosa, Riccardo Pellegrini, Antonio Posa, Riccardo Broglia, Mario De Biase and Andrea Serani
The paper presents the use of a supervised active learning approach for the solution of a simulation-driven design optimization (SDDO) problem, pertaining to the resistance reduction of a destroyer-type vessel in calm water. The optimization is formulate...
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Mina Tadros, Roberto Vettor, Manuel Ventura and C. Guedes Soares
This paper presents the effect of a propeller cup on the propeller cavitation and the fuel consumption of a bulk carrier in both calm water and different weather conditions towards improving the energy efficiency of the ship and reducing the level of emi...
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Rulin Yao, Long Yu, Qidong Fan and Xuefeng Wang
Applying fin stabilizers is an effective solution for ship rolls on waves in a seaway. They generally consist of one or two pairs of retractable fins that are symmetrically mounted to both sides of the ship, effectively reducing the roll motion at low or...
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Mina Tadros, Roberto Vettor, Manuel Ventura and C. Guedes Soares
This paper presents the effect of hull roughness over 10 years of operation on ship performance. The numerical model is developed by coupling NavCad and Matlab to perform the computation and the data processing. On the basis of a given hull, an engine, a...
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Dimitris Ntouras, George Papadakis and Kostas Belibassakis
Flapping foils for augmenting thrust production have drawn attention as a means of assisting ship propulsion in waves due to their high efficiency rate compared to traditional screw propellers. However, they can also offer substantial resistance reductio...
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