Open AccessA COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERISTICS OF A SHIP ENTERING A LOCK USING BENCHMARK TEST DATA
Author(s) -
M Vantorre,
M Candries,
Guillaume Delefortrie,
Katrien Eloot,
Jeroen Verwilligen,
Rupert Henn,
T Vergote,
O Lindberg,
Alexander de Loor,
H-Z Wang,
Zaojian Zou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of maritime engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.242
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1740-0716
pISSN - 1479-8751
DOI - 10.5750/ijme.v158ia2.977
Subject(s) - benchmark (surveying) , experimental data , lock (firearm) , marine engineering , complement (music) , numerical models , hydraulics , computer simulation , computer science , focus (optics) , test (biology) , engineering , simulation , geology , aerospace engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , statistics , geodesy , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , optics , complementation , gene , phenotype
This paper discusses several papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water, which had a non-exclusive focus on Ship Behaviour in Locks. For this conference, experimental model test data obtained at Flanders Hydraulics Research had been made public and researchers were encouraged to compare numerical with experimental results [1]. Data of benchmark tests carried out both with self- propelled and captive models were used by researchers for comparison with various numerical tools. The objective of this paper is to give a selected overview of how accurately numerical tools are presently able to predict the hydrodynamic forces that occur on ships approaching locks. Based on this, the paper concludes that experiments and numerical tools complement each other.