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http://dx.doi.org/10.5574/KSOE.2016.30.4.235

Practical Hull Form Design using VOB  

Kim, Hyun-Cheol (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Ulsan College)
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Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology / v.30, no.4, 2016 , pp. 235-242 More about this Journal
Abstract
In general, ship hull form design is carried out in two stages. In the first stage, the longitudinal variation of the sectional area curves is adapted from a similar mother ship to determine the volume distribution in ships. At this design stage, the initial design conditions of displacement, longitudinal center of buoyancy, etc. are satisfied and the global hydrodynamic properties of the structure are optimized. The second stage includes the local designing of the sectional forms. Sectional forms are related to the local pressure resistance in the fore- and aft-body shapes, cargo boundaries, interaction between the hull and propeller, etc. These relationships indicate that the hull sections need to be optimized in order to minimize the local resistance. The volumetric balanced (VOB) variation of ship hull forms has been suggested by Kim (2013) as a generalized, systematic variation method for determining the sectional area curves in hull form design. This method is characterized by form parameters and is based on an optimization technique. This paper emphasizes on an extensional function of the VOB considering a geometrical wave profile. We select a container ship and an LNG carrier to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed technique. Through analysis, we confirm that the VOB method, considering the geometrical wave profile, can be used as an efficient tool in the hull form design for ships.
Keywords
Sectional area curve; Volumetric balanced variation(VOB); Hull form design; Parametric design; Geometric wave profile(GWP);
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