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S. M. G. Thomas, M. Davis, B. French, J. Lavroff and W. Amin, “Lessons Learnt through the Design, Construction and Testing of a Hydroeslatic Model for Determining Motions, Loads and Slamming Behavior in Severe Sea States,” In 6th International Conference on Hydroelasticity in Marine Technology, Tokyo, 2012, pp. 163-172.

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• TITLE: Numerical Prediction of Symmetric Water Impact Loads on Wedge Shaped Hull Form Using CFD

  AUTHORS: Ahmed Swidan, Walid Amin, Dev Ranmuthugala, Giles Thomas, Irene Penesis

  KEYWORDS: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Slamming; Drop Test

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Mechanics, Vol.3 No.8, November 14, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Over the past two decades high-speed vessels have extended their service areas from protected waters to the open ocean where frequent and large water impacts can result in structural damage. The accurate prediction of slamming loads, and their consequences on light-weight high-speed vessels, is an essential element of efficient structural design. The aim of this work is to understand and accurately predict the behavior and local slam loads of quasi-2D wedge shaped hull forms impacting water. The computed results, using finite-volume Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), are validated against drop test experimental data and compared to a previously published numerical simulation using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). The CFD results show good agreement with the experimental measurements.