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Abstract
Two major areas were studied in this research to achieve more efficient and optimised method for the prediction of ship motion, and this research has two aims. The first aim was to improve an algorithm of the oscillatory problems for strip theory by means of reducing numerical integration using the desingularised method. A new way of distributing point sources was developed by the author in order to solve the boundary problem on the source distribution. Results showed that desingularsation can be utilised on rounded hull shapes. Although the desingularsation process reduces the computational time, the conventional method is more robust and stable due to the simple source panel distribution. The second aim was an investigation of viscous roll damping of ship motion with the influence of forward velocity, and several numerical simulations were developed in order to support wind-tunnel experimentation. The wind tunnel experimentation was conducted by using a 1.2 m NACA6521 modified cylindrical-bulb model to investigate the viscous effect on the rolling motion of the ship. Since viscous damping was very small under restrictions from the experimental condition, a normal method of collecting data of roll motion, in which a device is physically attached on the bulb model, was not suitable. As a solution, remote sensing was utilised to capture the motion picture by a digital video camera. A visual analysis was then conducted to obtain data of the roll motion of the bulb model inside the wind-tunnel test section. Two different numerical simulations were developed under the hypothesis that the forward velocity influences the boundary layer generation to cause viscous roll damping on the ship model hull. The first numerical simulation uses the energy method to produce damping coefficients, and the second numerical simulation requires solving the motion of equation numerically. It was discovered that the increase of forward velocity results in a linear increase of the viscous damping coefficient. The numerical simulation and experimental data agree closely. Therefore, the theory used to predict the viscous roll damping was shown to be reasonably accurate.