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A numerical environment for efficient assessment of ship resistance using CFD is presented in this paper. Predicting ship resistance in calm water with the Naval Hydro Pack can be performed within a few hours, including grid generation, computation and post–processing of results. Being able to rapidly predict ship resistance renders CFD a cost-effective design tool, since a hull form designer can evaluate multiple variants of hull geometry quickly. The process of setting up, running and post-processing is accelerated by automating the process to a high level, significantly decreasing the number of manual work effort. In this paper the capabilities of the Naval Hydro Pack are demonstrated by calculating steady resistance for three different benchmark hull forms, where time for pre-processing, processing and post-processing is reported. On average, it took two and a half hours to obtain steady state results per hull form, including set–up, computational time and data analysis. Results are validated against available experimental data showing accuracy with errors below 4%, which is acceptable for early design stage.
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