Alfonso, I attach two recent publications that should give you a fairly good idea of modern hull optimization
Yes, interesting paper. Thanks for sharing. By the way, Alik I'm reading your paper from the HPMV conference in Shanghai last month, the one...
To add more to the initial question... A typical example of a system to reduce friction is to release polymers (some specific types, long...
wow, that was interesting. geniuses animals... oh but that's true for many research works! :) For how I see it, if the shipbuilding...
There's quite a lot of research going on about air-ventilated hulls for commercial ships, because their friction resistance is the greatest part...
No, I wouldn't consider it so drastically complex. It's not a 'routine work' surely, but nothing impossible for a RANSE VOF program and within its...
strip theory and panel method are both based on potential flow, therefore all the viscous and rotational effects of the fluid flow are completely...
I don't think that the linear strip theory can go very far for such a complex simulation. At least I would use a 3-d panel method such as ANSYS...
if you check the website of that company http://www.tidalstream.co.uk/html/development.html you'll see that they already did rather extensive...
a CFD program (RANSE solver) would be able to simulate this, but it requires experience to use it as it's a complex problem. Moreover the...
Strange that you haven't find anything online, I thought that size is one of the most popular among amateur boatbuilders. Maybe you need a custom...
I agree with Daiquiri if you do it for your own use, but if you intend to distribute your spreadsheet to other people then I'm not so sure...
b1ck0, I'm still not understanding very well what you have in mind. If you just want to fill a plane with unstructured triangles, you can repeat...
Ok, that's wise. Though I'm not sure it'll be easy to find a NA available to take over and finalize your design. I mean, perhaps you get a bit...
that flat bottom looks ideal to navigate in a 8' sea... can I be frank? that's not a kayak, it's quite a big project with remarkable costs...
designers and boatyards produce what they think that the market asks, so the customers are those who mainly drive the new developments. even if...
:) sounds cool yes it will, in terms of wave resistance, as long as your hull fits in the ranges used during the systematic series experiments....
carry a bait, interesting... what are you going to do with the little boat? you should fix a target weight estimating the weight of every...
20' is already a model length! :) just kidding.. but you won't get much info from a tiny model. by the way, what kind of tests do you plan to...
it seems like you give yourself a bit too much design freedom :) wait a second, just to be sure: it's a displacement hull, right?
