Abstract

Taking into account the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) strategy to radically reduce
the GHG emitted by the shipping industry towards zero emission operation, today's assessment
of ship behavior in waves, its seakeeping characteristics and resistance, and their interrelation
with fuel consumption and emissions are one of the most attended research subjects. There are
three methods to conduct this analysis, which are Experimental Fluid Dynamics (FED), numerical
methods eg Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and empirical analysis. This study shows the
results of time-domain analysis of ship motions and resistance in head sea waves by using the CFD
method, which is then verified using the experimental results.The tests were run for different
wavelengths for a KCS model. Numerical results, which are based on solving Unsteady Reynolds-
Averaged Navier-Stokes equations (URANS) show that the CFD method applied by using STAR
CCM+ can be reliable for evaluating the ship's seakeeping characteristics and resistance in waves.

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