A resistances prediction of trimaran ship in waves

Abstract

Nowadays, multihull high speed vessels have widely used for both military and transportation services. Many researchers are trying to exploring the potential of new hull forms as part of efforts to achieve ship transformation in military and transportation sector. To fulfill the above demands, many researchers propose unconventional hull forms in order to balance speed with payload requirements. One such hull form is the trimaran ship. The purpose of this thesis is to predict trimaran ship's resistance in waves by using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulation. This simulation will use two software applications of Max.surf and ANSYS FLUENT. Trimaran ships with variation of outrigger will be testing in various of wave condition and ship speed. With the help of current technology, this project has tremendous potential to contributing the knowledge in ship design field especially to identify ship resistance in waves.