Verification and validation of ITTC benchmark ship CFD performance towards development of CFD and EFD combined methods

Abstract

CFD applications in ship hydrodynamics have been remarkably exploited in the past decades. However, the supremacy of experimental tests, known as EFD, are irreplaceable even against the urgency of less laborious and low-cost hydrodynamic prediction methods. Recently, ITTC has introduced and worked out on CFD and EFD combined methods to benefit the best combination of CFD and EFD for the predictions of ship hydrodynamics. This study explores CFD performance towards development of CFD and EFD combined methods by employing ITTC benchmark ships. The ships were modeled and tested in various operating conditions where results were examined against EFD values from previous studies. Accuracy of the simulation results yielded as high as 97.03% indicates that the presented approach is rigor as a basis of CFD and EFD combined methods for sustainable fluid dynamic analysis.