Study of Wave Added Resistance and Motions of KCS in Waves With Different Wave Lengths

Estimating added resistance and motions of a ship in waves are essential to predict fuel consumption and speed loss. The added resistance and motions of the 3600 TEU KRISO container ship (KCS) in regular head waves under different wavelengths are investigated using Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) method. Volume of Fluid (VOF) method is applied to capture the free surface. The in-house computational fluid dynamics solver, naoe-FOAM-SJTU, is used to compute the added resistance and motions of KCS in regular head waves. Firstly, the first-order Stokes waves in deep water are adopted and generated in naoe-FOAM-SJTU as a numerical wave tank. Secondly, it is presented that the KCS with a Froude number of 0.261 advances in these waves. Regular wave conditions with a wide range of wavelength (0.65 < λ/L < 1.95) are considered. The variations of resistance, pitch and heave show good agreement with experimental results. To investigate nonlinear behaviors of predicted results, Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is applied to analyze the results of resistance, heave and pitch with in head wave (μ = 180°). KCS with and without motions is also compared to investigate the relationship between components of resistance and wavelengths. The results of added resistances show that the added resistance of KCS is mainly induced by ship diffraction in short waves. The wave diffraction is not affected by wave frequency. In addition, CFD can accurately calculate the problem on added resistance and ship motions.