Results of an international benchmark study on numerical simulation of flooding and motions of a damaged ropax ship

Ruponen, Pekka and Valanto, Petri and Acanfora, Maria and Dankowski, Hendrik and Lee, Gyeong Joong and Mauro, Francesco and Murphy, Alistair and Rosano, Gennaro and van't Veer, Riaan (2022) Results of an international benchmark study on numerical simulation of flooding and motions of a damaged ropax ship. Applied Ocean Research, 123. 103153. ISSN 0141-1187 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2022.103153)

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Abstract

Survivability of damaged ships, especially ro-ro/passenger (ropax) vessels, is of paramount interest. Nowadays, time-domain simulation of flooding and motions of damaged ships are more frequently performed to obtain a more realistic overview of the actual survivability in case of a flooding accident. An international benchmark study on simulation of flooding and motions of damaged ropax vessels was conducted within the EU Horizon 2020 project FLARE, using new dedicated model tests as a reference. The test cases include transient flooding in both calm water and in irregular beam seas, as well as gradual flooding and capsizing in beam seas. The studied damage case is a two-compartment collision damage, and the studied intact metacentric height values were lower than the statutory requirements to achieve also capsize cases. Numerical results were carefully compared against measurement data from the model tests. In transient flooding cases the capsize conditions were generally detected well by most codes. However, much variation was observed in the internal flooding and capsize mechanisms. For gradual flooding in beam seas, the results for capsize rate and time-to-capsize were characterized by significant variability among the codes. Results indicate that more research is needed to further improve the time-domain flooding simulation methods to correctly capture both transient flooding phenomena and motions of damaged ship in high waves.

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