Journal
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jmse9050511
Keywords
hydroelasticity; CFD-FEM; non-linear; container ship
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC0312400, 2019YFC0312402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51809035]
- Open Project of State Key Laboratory of Deep Sea Mineral Resources Development and Utilization Technology [SH-2020-KF-A01]
- Liao Ning Revitalization Talents Program [XLYC1908027]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [DUT20TD108, DUT20LAB308]
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This paper investigates the non-linear hydroelasticity effect of a 6750-TEU container ship using a coupled CFD-FEM method. The study validates the numerical method and finds that the wave length-ship length ratio has a greater impact on hydroelastic response, while increasing ship speed does not correspondingly increase the non-linearity of the hydroelastic response.
With the increase of ship size, the stiffness of the hull structure becomes smaller. This means that the frequency of wave excitation tends to be closer to the natural frequency of the hull vibration, which in turn makes the hydroelastic responses more significant. An accurate assessment of the wave loads and motion responses of hulls is the key to ship design and safety assessment. In this paper, the coupled CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)-FEM (Finite Element Method) method is used to investigate the non-linear hydroelasticity effect of a 6750-TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) container ship. First, by comparing the heave, pitch, and vertical bending moment at midship section (VBM4) against experimental results reported in the literature, the validity of the numerical method in this paper is illustrated. Secondly, the ship responses under different wave length-ship length ratio, wave frequency-structure natural frequency, wave steepness, and ship speeds are studied. It is found that the wave length-ship length ratio has a more important influence on the hydroelastic response than that from wave frequency-structure natural frequency ratio, and the effect of wave non-linearity will behave differently under different wave length-ship length ratio. The increase of rigid body motion caused by forward speed will not correspondingly increase the non-linearity of the hydroelastic response.
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