Catamaran Wave Interference

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  1. rxcomposite
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    Very nice work. Mine is an amateur compared to yours. I just find the least interference from the graph and find a hull (among many) that has the least resistance for the parameters given.

    I just can't open the spreadsheet. The PDF file I can.
     
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    Stable hulls are usually wide beamed but hard to paddle. Olympic rowing shells are easy to paddle but tips over easily.
     
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    Many thanks :) Here attached a copy in PDF format of the spreadsheet. If you have an Ipad, you can download the free application OOreader to open any Open Office document. Anyway, Open Office is itself a free software, I downloaded mine with Apache OpenOffice (just 3 codes provided by SMS, (for the french version ?), costing me 3 x 4,5 Euros) and that works well, all Gene-Hull versions are developed with it. Libre Office, also free, can also be used to open and use these .ods applications.
     

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    I found another very interesting paper by E. O. Tuck and L. Lazauskas : "Optimum hull spacing of a family of multihulls" which gives the numerical computation of the wave drag within Michell's thin ship theory for a Wigley hull in both a mono and a cata configuration (also for other configs : trimaran, etc…, but I limited my investigation to the cata mode) :
    http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/yvonne.stokes/Tuck/pdfiles/tuclaz.pdf
    As the considered hull is "slender" (L/B >7) and that in the Froude range < 1,0 the shape of such hull is of second order importance with regard the ratios (in particular Lw/D^(1/3) for the wave drag), one can validly compare their numerical results with the model test series (document attached). Main conclusions :
    *** The slender monohull : curve shape and order of magnitude is quite good / model test series in Froude 0,35 to 1,0 range.
    *** Yet, the « wave drag reduction as beam squared » rule consubstantial to the Michell's thin ship theory appears optimistic. In adimensional format, that is equivalent to"Dr/Mg reduction as beam" as M is also reduced as beam, but the comparison from test results when considering for example a half beam versus a beam hull, shows a consistent 0,7 reduction of Dr/Mg (in Froude 0,45 - 1,0 range) instead of 0,5 from the theory.
    *** In cata mode, the wave (residuary) drag amplification factor one can derived from the Wigley hull computation with Michell's and a S/Lw of 0,47 is :
    - For Froude 0,35 to 0,5 : similar to the one of the model tests results, with factor peak ~ 0,22 (i.e. 22% extra drag)
    - For Fn > 0,6 : the factor vanished to zero (i.e. no interference) instead of 0,1 for the model tests (i.e. 10% extra drag)
     
  5. rxcomposite
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    That is what I based my study from. My excel program generates a set of hulls with different parameters. I choose the one with the least resistance.

    Check also Leo and Tuck article Solar Powered Multihull same site. He has some model test and comparison of resistance for different configurations.
     
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    So, for my boat...

    Is there a minimum or optimum hull separation?

    This discounts strength concerns.
     
  7. Ad Hoc
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    Yup:

     

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    So I am at ...

    3.81/9.504 = 0.401
     
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