Investigation on Components of Added Resistance in Short Waves

Abstract

In order to estimate decrease of ship speed in actual seas, it is important to calculate added resistance in waves with accuracy. Especially added resistance in short waves is one of the predominant factors inducing the decrease of speed for a large ship in relation to wave spectrum. Various calculation methods have been proposed for the added resistance in short waves. However those methods are proposed for blunt and low-speed ships, for example, tanker, bulk carrier, etc. Those methods give poor agreement with experimental data for fine and high-speed ships. To improve the estimation method, firstly numerical investigation on the effect of draft and frequency was carried out. Thereafter experiments of wall-sided models with motion fixed were conducted. From these results a new formula is proposed, which gives good agreement with the experimental results.