Verification and Validation Analysis on Marine Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The significant increase in the last two decades of the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in engineering applications in general, and in the maritime fields, inevitably has led to the need to assess the accuracy and reliability of the numerical results. This goal can be achieved by the Verification and Validation (V&V) procedures. The V&V procedures allow the estimation of the uncertainties in a simulation (modeling and numerical) and an experimental test (verification). Based on the uncertainties estimated in the verification part and the comparison error, a simulation can be/or not be validated against the corresponding experimental test. Several approaches and procedures have been developed to perform V&V analysis of CFD simulations and, in the maritime field, the ITTC (International Towing Tank Conference) defined a specific guideline for the Uncertainty Analysis in CFD application on ships and offshore structures. The V&V analyses, initially applied in very few cases, are now widely implemented due to the ever-larger number of CFD simulations performed and are providing significant feedback regarding the results and the limits of the existing V&V procedures.

Therefore, the scope of the present Special Issue is to collect research and studies on the application of the different V&V procedures/methodologies applied especially in the maritime field (hydrodynamic applications, marine applications, etc.) investigating the results and the eventual shortcomings/limits of the existing procedures themselves.

Dr. Simone Mancini
Dr. Momchil Terziev
Guest Editors

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