Discussion of grid generation for catamaran resistance calculation

• DOI: 10.1007/s11804-010-9080-2
• Publication Date: 2010-05-22T08:17:01Z
• Authors: Rui Deng; De-bo Huang; Jia Li; Xuan-kai Cheng; Lei Yu
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

In order to get some useful parameters for grid generation of catamaran, the CFD software FLUENT is used to investigate the main effects of grid generation on flow field calculation. The influences of some elements are investigated with a series of calculations in the present paper, and some alteratives are proposed. The proposed alteratives based on the analysis of the effects are used for a catamaran resistance calculation, comparisons of the calculated results with experimental data show good agreement. It shows that the research result of this paper is useful for the numerical calculation of catamaran.