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http://dx.doi.org/10.3744/SNAK.2015.52.1.8

Design and Performance Evaluation of Superstructure Modification for Air Drag Reduction of a Container Ship  

Kim, Yoonsik (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering)
Kim, Kwang-Soo (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering)
Jeong, Seong-Wook (STX Offshore & Shipbuilding)
Jeong, Seung-Gyu (STX Offshore & Shipbuilding)
Van, Suak-Ho (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering)
Kim, Jin (Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering)
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Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea / v.52, no.1, 2015 , pp. 8-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
Reduction of the fuel oil consumption and corresponding greenhouse gas exhausted from ships is an important issue for today's ship design and shipping. Several concepts and devices on the superstructure of a container ship were suggested and tested in the wind tunnel to estimate the air drag reduction. As a preliminary performance evaluation, air drag contributions of each part of the superstructure and containers were estimated based on RANS simulation respectively. Air drag reduction efficiency of shape modification and add-on devices on the superstructure and containers was also estimated. Gap-protectors between containers and a visor in front of upper deck were found to be most effective for drag reduction. Wind tunnel tests had been carried out to confirm the drag reduction performance between the baseline(without any modification) configuration and two modified superstructure configurations which were designed and chosen based on the computation results. The test results with the modified configurations show considerable aerodynamic drag reduction, especially the gap-protectors between containers show the largest reduction for the wide range of heading angles. RANS computations for three configurations were performed and compared with the wind tunnel tests. Computation result shows the similar drag reduction trend with experiment for small heading angles. However, the computation result becomes less accurate as heading angle is increasing where the massively separated flow is spread over the leeward side.
Keywords
Air drag reduction; Container ship; Wind tunnel test; Superstructure; Wind load; Computational Fluid Dynamics;
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