CFD Aerodynamic Analysis of a Cruise Ship

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) aerodynamic analysis of a large cruise ship using STAR-CCM+.

• Prepared and cleaned the 3D geometry for CFD simulation.

• Created the external computational domain and fluid region.

• Generated the computational mesh with local refinement around the ship geometry.

• Defined air-flow physics, boundary conditions, and turbulence models.

• Simulated external airflow around the complete cruise ship geometry.

• Analyzed pressure distribution, velocity contours, wake behavior, and aerodynamic drag.

• Calculated aerodynamic drag force and drag coefficient.

• Evaluated the aerodynamic performance of the ship at the selected operating speed.

Software: STAR-CCM+, Rhino 3D

Field: CFD, Aerodynamics, Marine Engineering, Numerical Simulation