Experimental and theoretical study of the effect of hull roughness on ship resistance

Song, Soonseok and Dai, Saishuai and Demirel, Yigit Kemal and Atlar, Mehmet and Day, Sandy and Turan, Osman (2020) Experimental and theoretical study of the effect of hull roughness on ship resistance. Journal of Ship Research. ISSN 0022-4502 (In Press)

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    Abstract

    Hull roughness increases ship frictional resistance and thus results in economic and environmental penalties. Its effect has been prevalently predicted using the similarity law scaling procedure, presented by Granville (1958; 1978). However, this method has not yet been validated with experimental data using a model ship. This paper presents an experimental investigation into the effect of roughness on ship resistance and provides a validation of the similarity law scaling, by using tank testing of a flat plate and a model ship. Both the plate and the ship were tested in smooth and rough surface conditions, respectively. For the rough surface conditions, sand grit (aluminium oxide abrasive powder) was applied on the surfaces of the flat plate and the ship model. The roughness functions of the rough surface were derived by using the results obtained from the flat plate tests. Using the roughness function and the flat plate towing test, the frictional resistance was extrapolated to the length of the model ship following the similarity law scaling procedure. The total resistance of the rough ship model was first predicted using the extrapolated frictional resistance and the result of the smooth ship model, and then compared with the results from the rough ship model. The predicted total resistance coefficients for the rough ship model showed good agreement with the measured total resistance coefficient of the rough ship model; thus proving the validity of using Granville’s similarity law scaling to extrapolate the roughness effect on ship resistance.

    Creators(s): Song, Soonseok, Dai, Saishuai ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9666-6346, Demirel, Yigit Kemal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6739-4911, Atlar, Mehmet, Day, Sandy ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6798-3468 and Turan, Osman;
    Item type:Article
    ID code:71534
    Keywords:roughness effect, model ship towing test, Granville’s similarity law scaling, ship resistance, experimental fluid dynamics (EFD), Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis
    Subjects:Naval Science > Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering
    Strategic Research Themes > Ocean, Air and Space
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:24 Feb 2020 09:27
    Last modified:05 Jul 2020 01:34
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/71534
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