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Islam, H., Sutulo, S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2022), “Aerodynamic loads prediction on a patrol vessel using Computational Fluid Dynamics”, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Vol. 10, 935.
Aerodynamic loads on a naval patrol vessel are investigated using Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations based on the OpenFOAM solver. Model scale simulations are performed for a wide range of inflow angles to predict aerodynamic forces and moments acting on the vessel at different heading conditions. For validation, model scale results are compared with wind tunnel data for similar hull forms. Finally, full scale simulations are performed for a few cases to investigate possible scale effects on simulation results. The revealed scale effect turned out significant only for the yaw moment response. The study concludes that CFD is well capable in providing reliable aerodynamic load predictions for high speed vessels with sophisticated super structures, which is essential to develop reliable manoeuvring models.
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