• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.87-94
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• 1999

Empirical design is still used to avoid a structural damage because impact phenomenon and structural behaviour due to wave impact load can not examined accurately. The damage due to wave impact load is largely affected by impact pressure impulse and impact load area. The objective of this study is, as the second step, to develop an efficient scantling program of bow flare structure, and to predict its impact load area by comparing maximum dented deformations at center of idealized panel structure model of bow flare structure of 300k DWT VLCC using LS/DYNA3D code, which will be used for its verification of dynamic structural analysis, as the next step. Through this study, the impact load area was estimated as $1.5s{\times}1.5s$ stiffener space(s) in the case of panel with stiffeners and as $2.5s{\times}2.5s$, with stringers, under impact pressure curve with peak height 6.5MPa, tail height 1.0MPa, and duration time 5.0msec.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 1994

Procedures for the development of a preswirl stator-propulsion system for a VLCC 300K are described in this paper. The preswirl stator-propulsion system is one of the compound propulsor systems, which is used for the purpose of recovering propeller slipstream rotational energy by locating a stator in front of the propeller. The preswirl stator-propulsion system can be considered as a most reliable energy saving device because of its simple mechanism. Five stators are designed for the existing hull form and propeller, and their effects are verified by model tests. Open-water test result of the preswirl stator-propulsion system at the cavitation tunnel show $4{\sim}6%$ increase of open-water efficiency compared to that of a propeller without stators. Maximum 6.5% decrease of delivered power at the design speed(15.5knots) is expected with the designed stator based on the analysis results of resistance and self-propulsion test at the towing tank.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.7
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• pp.946-956
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• 2011

The main objectives of this study are to analyze the leaked gas dispersion and quantify the potential overpressures due to vapor cloud explosions in order to identify the most significant contributors to risk by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFX & FLACS) for gas fuelled ships. A series of CFD simulations and analyses have been performed for the various gas release scenarios in a closed module, covering different release rates and ventilating methods. This study is specially focused on the LNG FGS (Fuel Gas Supply) system recently developed for the propulsion of VLCC crude oil carriers by shipyards. Most of work presented is discussed on the gas dispersion from leaks in the FGS room, and shows some blast prediction validation examples.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.785-794
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• 2005

Modern ship hulls of large oil carriers and container carrers have become more flexible with scantling optimization and increase in ship length. On the other hand. as the demand for power has increased with the ship size. shaft diameters have become larger and stiffer. Consequently. the alignment of the propulsion system has become more sensitive to hull girder deflections. resulting in difficulties in analyzing the alignment and conducting the alignment procedure. Accordingly. the frequency of shaft alignment related bearing damages has increased significantly in recent years. The alignment related damages are mostly attributed to inadequate analyses. changes in the design of the vessel. shipyards' practices in conducting the alignment. and a lack of well defined analytical criteria. The hull deflections should be considered at the design stage to minimize the bearing damage caused by hull deflection. Hull deflections can be estimated by analytical approach and reverse calculation using the measured data. The hull girder deflection analysis using the reverse calculation will be introduced in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.177-180
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• 2002

The study on the design of pre-swirl stator vanes is performed. The pre-swirl stator vanes is an energy-saving device to improve propulsive performance by providing pre-swirl to the propeller inflow. The theoretical background and the design conditions for pre-swirl stator vanes are presented. The flow characteristics around the pre-swirl stator vanes attached ship hull are analyzed through the experimental method. The technique to determine the optimum location, angle and the number of stator vane is investigated and applied it to 310,000 TBW VLCC The flow velocities are measured using 5-hole Pilot tubes at the condition with and without a propeller.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.37-55
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• 1989

When a ship is sailing on the sea, she has the six-degrees of freedom of motion. It means that she meets a lot of dangerous situations. Especially, when the VLCC is travelling in irregular sea, the slamming, the deck-wetness and the propeller racing are occured with the sea state she is on. These are the representative steps that a heave-to and a scudding are used for a ship building , but for a predominance in both. The author intends to clarify this problem theoretically. The methods of statistical calculation are based with the ITTC spectral formulation and with the assumption that the wave height histogram follows the Rayleigh distribution. In this study, the author gives an attention on the relative bow motion to a wave in the irregular sea. It is verified that the relative diplacement at the bow to sea level in the following sea is less than that in the head sea. It is confirmed that, therefore, one have to sail with scudding when he is threatened to heave-to at a rough sea. But he must bear the propeller racing in mind in the cases.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.117-122
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• 1995

원자력의 이용 분야 확대를 위하여 선박용 소형 동력로를 설계하였다. 본 연구에서는 다음의 제한 조건 및 설계 조건을 설정하여 핵적 개념 설계를 수행하였다. 노심의 부피는 국내 제작가능한 VLCC기종 유조선 기관실내에 배치 가능하도록 제한하였고, 선박의 정기 점검 기간에 맞춘 핵연료 재장전 주기 길이, 무붕산 노심 운전, 상용 가압경수로 보다 낮은 선출력과 출력 밀도, MUTSU호와 같은 1차 계통 열수력 조건, 등의 설계 조건을 설정하였다. 울진 3＆4의 핵연료 집합체의 길이만을 짧게 하여 사용하는 것에 대한 타당성 모색을 핵적 개념 설계 목표로 삼았다. 핵연료 집합체의 설계 및 반응단면적 생산은 CASMO-3 코트를, 노심 전체의 분석은 3차원 노달 코드인 KINS-3코트를 사용하였다. 개념 설계 결과, 노심 주기길이 690일을 달성할 수 있는 핵연료 집합체의 농축도와 갯수는 1.88%의 17개, 3.3%의 20개로 결정하였고, F$_{Q}$는 2.833이였고, 운전 상태에서의 감속재 온도 개수는 -24.8 pcm/$^{\circ}C$로 나타나서 한국형 원자로용 핵연료 집합체를 그대로 선박용 원자로에 사용 가능함을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.564-571
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• 2007

In the present study, stern form optimization has been carried out using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques. The viscous pressure drag has been minimized to optimize stern shape. Parametric modification function has been used to modify the shape of the hull. By the use of the parametric modification function and algebraic scheme to grid manipulation, the initial ship geometry was easily deformed according to change of design parameters. For purpose of illustration, KRISO 319K VLCC (KVLCC) is chosen for example ship to demonstrate stern form optimization. The numerical results indicate that the optimized hull yields a reduction in viscous resistance.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.321-329
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• 2007

The present pipe modeling method requires detailed inputs from a designer to generate a pipe model, and thus it takes much time for the designer to perform such task. Moreover, the pipe model has no relation with the hull structure. Thus, it is time-consuming and requires much effort if design changes arise. In this study, a generating method that generates quickly many pipes using a pipe tray and a conversion method that converts automatically the pipes into objects related with the hull structure are proposed. A pipe modeling system based on the proposed methods is developed. The applicability of the developed system is demonstrated by applying it to the generation of the pipe model of a deadweight 300,000 ton VLCC(Very Large Crude oil Carrier). The results show that the developed system can quickly generate the pipe model in relation with the hull structure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.354-361
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• 2016

While the amounts of oil spill caused by the VLCC Hebei Spirit indicated 2.5 times more than that of the VLCC Sea Prince, the economic, environmental, and social damages derived from the Hebei Spirit spill were estimated to be about 30 times greater than those from the Sea Prince incident. This study consolidates the appropriate justification for building a multi-purpose large oil spill response vessel to allow swift and efficient handling of catastrophic marine pollution events through an analysis of technical and economic feasibility of such a project. The result of the technical feasibility analysis illustrates that a hopper dredge and oil spill response vessel with a capacity of 4,000 tons should be more appropriate. The result of the economic feasibility analysis indicates that under the most conservative estimates the project appears to be slightly impractical, with a benefit/cost ratio of 0.82, in which self-help efforts, however, can facilitate the project. And medium to optimistic estimates present benefit/cost ratios are estimated to be 2.72 and 5.82 respectively, representing apparent economic feasibility.