Application of Hydrodynamics in Ship Structure Design

Dear Colleagues,

Ship structural design naturally requires an accurate description of all the applied loads, the hydrodynamic actions being in many cases the most significant part of them. For conventional designs, wave-induced hull girder forces and moments or local pressures on structural panels are estimated on the basis of design rules and empirical formulas. With the current trend in the ship industry for the construction of larger, faster, and more slender ships with complex structural designs, a more refined analysis of the hydrodynamic interactions is required to obtain global loads and to elucidate dynamic phenomena like hydroelastic vibrations or slamming and whipping responses.  

This Special Issue aims to present the recent developments in the interconnected fields of hydrodynamics and structural analysis. This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, contemporary hydroelastic methods for the solution of the coupled hydrodynamic and structural problem, including coupled CFD (BEM, RANS, SPH, etc.) and FE (beam of 3D models) numerical methods. Research in the area of coupling methods between hydrodynamic and structural codes is welcome. Moreover, experimental investigations of the hydroelastic behavior with either full-scale measurements or wave tank experiments and validation of the numerical schemes against experimental results are also covered.

It is hoped that this Special Issue will present with clarity the scientific progress in this area, including significant contributions of the research community.   

Dr. Georgios Katsaounis
Prof. Dr. Gregory Grigoropoulos
Guest Editors

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