Hello fellow foamers,

Last year during the SIG meeting in Gothenburg we discussed putting together some example cases and documentation. Has anyone been working on this and would like to share with the group? If not, does anyone have any interest and time to push this forward? I believe we also discussed sharing some grids to help get this going. There are good ideas for some example cases already stubbed in on the wiki - openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Sig_Ship_Hydrodynamics .

Best regards,
Kevin

As most of you probably know, there was an international workshop on CFD for ship hydrodynamics in Gothenburg Sweden in December last year. The theme of the workshop was to have the willing participants submit their CFD results for three ships (KVLCC2, DTMB 5415, and KCS) at a range of conditions (e.g., fixed and free sinkage and trim, with and without incoling waves, etc.). Our group (DTMB, ARL Penn State, Univ of Mich) jointly participated in the workshop with results obtained using a custom version of OpenFOAM®. And our results consistently came out to be among the best for all the cases we submitted the results for (KVLCC2, DTMB 5415), beating others including major commercial codes and in-house codes. For details, find and talk to your colleagues who attended the workshop. They should have access to the proceedings.

Since the geometries of the workshop cases are all in open domain and downloadable(www.gothenburg2010.org) and the experimental data are available, these cases would be good candidates for benchmarks/validations for this interest group.