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Article

Performance Assessment of a Planing Hull Using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method

by
Bonaventura Tagliafierro
1,
Simone Mancini
2,*,
Pablo Ropero-Giralda
3,
José M. Domínguez
3,
Alejandro J. C. Crespo
3 and
Giacomo Viccione
4
1
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
2
Department of Hydro and Aerodynamics, FORCE Technology, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
3
Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), CIM-UVIGO, Universidade de Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
4
Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics Laboratory (LIDAM), University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9(3), 244; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9030244
Submission received: 2 February 2021 / Accepted: 19 February 2021 / Published: 25 February 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unconventional Marine Vehicles)

Abstract

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Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of planing hulls are generally considered less reliable than simulations of displacement hulls. This is due to the flow complexity around planing hulls, especially in the bow region, where the sprays are formed. The recent and constant increasing of computational capabilities allows simulating planing hull features, with more accurate turbulence models and advanced meshing procedures. However, mesh-based approaches based on the finite volume methods have shown to be limited in capturing all the phenomena around a planing hull. As such, the focus of this study is on evaluating the ability of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics mesh-less method to numerically solve the 3-D flow around a planing hull and simulate more accurately the spray structures, which is a rather challenging task to be performed with mesh-based tools. A novel application of the DualSPHysics code for simulating a planing hull resistance test has been proposed and applied to the parent hull of the Naples warped planing hull Systematic Series. The drag and the running attitudes (heave and dynamic trim angle) are computed for a wide range of Froude’s numbers and discussed concerning experimental values.

1. Introduction

Planing hulls are high-speed crafts where the hydrodynamic forces are more predominant than the hydrostatic ones. The general behavior of the planing hull is characterized by transition from displacement to planing regime passing through the transition mode, also called pre-planing regime.
Various methods are available at hand to calculate the hydrodynamic characteristics of planing hulls such as experimental, analytical, and numerical. Experimental methods (ITTC HSMV Committee report, 1999 [1]) were the first developed but require expensive facilities and measurement tools to be conducted. About the analytical methods, Savitsky [2] developed the analytical/empirical framework to evaluate the lift, drag, and dynamic trim angle based on a few input data (i.e., the hull dimensions, the deadrise angle, the longitudinal center of gravity, and the forward speed) to understand the basic hydrodynamic characteristics of the planing surface. Savitsky’s method and its developments still now represent the most widespread method to evaluate the planing hull performance in the preliminary assessments of the design stage (Blount, 2014 [3])
Over the past 20 years, researchers and designers have begun to use numerical tools based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods to predict the performance of the planing hulls. Generally, the computational tools are less expensive than experimental tests and more reliable than analytical/empirical methods. Hence, CFD tools are now widely used and are considered useful especially in the early-stage design phases, when understanding the behavior of the flow near and behind the hull can help designers improve the performance of high-speed planing hulls, as pointed out, for instance, by Di Caterino et al., (2018) [4].
Recently, an increased interest toward hull performance with regards to ship resistance and propulsion has been taking place in academia and industry. The main reason behind the design optimization of motorboats lies on the need to maximize fuel efficiency, with positive consequences in terms of cost-saving benefits and environmental preservation. Moreover, a pronounced interest comes from light-weight small boats in competitive sailing. A significant number of theoretical studies and experimental tests have been carried so far, for example, in Thornhill et al., (2003) [5], Begovic and Bertorello, (2012) [6], Matveev, (2014) [7], Sukas et al., (2017) [8], Jiang et al., (2016) [9], De Marco et al., (2017) [10], Niazmand Bilandi et al., (2018) [11], Tavakoli et al., (2020) [12], to name a few. Details of the study conducted in the above-mentioned papers are available in the following table (Table 1).
CFD has soon become an effective tool for revealing the hydrodynamic characteristics of high-speed marine vehicles. Several pieces of research on the topic of the planing hull performance have been carried out in the last decade using CFD tools. Among them, the most comprehensive analyses are the following:
  • Fu et al., (2014) [13] showed the results from a collaborative research effort involving two different CFD codes: CFDShip-Iowa and Numerical Flow Analysis – NFA. The results were presented and discussed examining the hydrodynamic forces, moments, hull pressures, accelerations, motions, and the multi-phase free-surface flow field generated by a prismatic planing craft at high speed in calm water and waves. The comparison between numerical and experimental data for still water conditions indicated that at high Froude Number ( F r ), the dynamic trim was generally under-predicted and the resistance over-predicted.
  • Kandasamy et al., (2011) [14] exposed a Verification and Validation (V&V) analysis in full scale with the Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) code CFDShip-Iowa for two high-speed semi-planing foil-assisted catamarans. Comparing the experimental data against the full-scale simulation results, the resistance comparison error was in the range of 9.6% to 15.5% and the dynamic trim angle comparison error was in the range of −44.1% to 0.8%.
  • Yousefy et al., (2013) [15] conducted a comprehensive study on the existing numerical techniques for planing craft and they used several different commercially available CFD software programs (ANSYS-FLUENT, ANSYS-CFX, CFD Ship-Iowa, ShipFlow, Tdyn, CD-Adapco Star-CCM+) to determine the flow field around a planing hull.
  • Mousaviraad et al., (2015) [16] carried out a planing hull validation using the URANS code CFDShip-Iowa applied to one of the hull models of the benchmark experimental series of Fridsma, 1969 [17].
  • De Luca et al., (2016) [18] showed the results of a comprehensive V&V campaign of simulations of resistance test in still water condition using the hulls of the warped planing hulls of the Naples Systematic Series. The analysis depicts, for a wide range of speed and different hull shapes, the simulation uncertainty and the comparison errors. All the simulations in this study were carried out using the CFD software Star-CCM+.
In all the above-mentioned papers the URANS method with the Volume of Fraction (VOF) approach for the air-water interface capturing is proved to be the most effective tool, in terms of accuracy and computational effort, for the planing hull performance evaluation. Furthermore, the RANS-VOF has been also found as a suitable solution for the fluid-structure interaction problem (Kocaman et al., 2020 [19]), being especially relevant when dealing with planing hulls. Indeed, the panels of high-speed planing hulls may experience severe loads and slams in still water and, of course, in rough sea conditions. Several papers discuss this topic, for instance, Volpi et al., (2017) [20]. An overview of the different approaches in the fluid-structure interaction application for the high-speed craft is available in a recent paper of Rosen et al., (2020) [21].
Different from the URANS-based software, only a few literature reports have dealt with the application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) method to numerically model the full 3-D ship hydrodynamics. SPH is a numerical method [22], first applied to astrophysical simulations, and has presently gained momentum among the scientific community and within the industry for solving a variety of problems (see [23,24]), though only some are focused on planing hull performance. Moreover, the related carried analyses were performed around hull portions and not for the whole hull body. For instance, Landrini et al., (2012) [25] studied the free-surface bow flow around a fast and fine ship in calm water, with an emphasis on generation and evolution of the breaking and splashing bow wave. This analysis was performed using a coupled strategy of investigation. A temporal domain-decomposition strategy, which sequentially combines two Lagrangian methods, was adopted: a potential-flow solution, given by a Boundary Element Method (BEM), follows the jet evolution up to the breaking and initiates a rotational solution, provided by the SPH technique. The DDG51 vessel was used as a model for the validation. Marrone et al., (2012) [26] investigated the ship wave breaking patterns using 3D SPH simulations. Another analysis was carried out by Dashtimanesh and Gadimi, (2013) [27] that investigated, using the SPH method, the transom wave behind planing hulls. Tafuni et al., (2016) [28] investigates the bottom pressure fields and the wave elevation generated by a planing hull in finite-depth water. Additionally, the hydroelastic problem of panels and simple structures of high-speed crafts impacting on a calm water surface has been investigated in recent years using SPH codes (e.g., Brizzolara et al., 2008 [29]) and SPH coupled with finite element codes, SPH-FEM, (e.g., Campbell and Patel, 2010 [30] and Fragassa, 2019 [31]). However, no more relevant papers have been found to investigate the effectiveness of the SPH method for the entire hull simulation, especially for the high-speed craft.
The recent growth in using CFD simulations can be generally credited to the fast-growing computational capacity of entry-level solutions, which presently can balance the high demand for resources of such methods [32]. The SPH-based DualSPHysics code [33] is an open-source solver (LGPL license), developed mainly for coastal engineering applications. Specifically, the code is up to date with the newest hardware accelerator facilities, such as the general-purpose graphic processor units (GPGPUs). The solver is written in CUDA language [34] to fully exploit the potential of GPUs. Numerous functionalities have been included over the last decade to simulate fluid-driven objects to account for more realistic applications. The system can manage fluid-driven objects directly within the SPH framework, whereas the coupled Project Chrono library [35] allows dealing with a series of features for building up complex restraint systems. Many recent works have shown the viability of this approach, for example, in simulating wave energy converters [36,37,38,39], or to simulate the hydrodynamics of non-conventional vessels [40].
This work focuses on the numerical investigation, using the SPH method, of hydrodynamic performance of a typical planing hull. In particular, the parent hull of the Naples Systematic Series (NSS), also called C1 Hull, is studied. After presenting an overview of the CFD methods on the high-speed crafts performance evaluation, reporting some cases of the SPH approach, Section 2 provides details about the implementation of the SPH formulation leveraged into the code DualSPHysics. Section 3 presents the experimental setup and Section 4 goes into the numerical setup used to carry out the current study. Section 5 validates the numerical model and discusses the results of hydrodynamic characteristics such as resistance, heave, and dynamic trim angle. The validated SPH tool is used for gaining further insights about the physics of the investigated hull, focusing on the spray structures. Finally, Section 6 draws conclusions and future implications of the presented case study.

2. DualSPHysics Code

This section deals with the implemented SPH formulation which constitutes the foundation of the DualSPHysics code; important functionalities required to simulate the hull dynamics and high-speed flows are introduced as well.

2.1. SPH Method

When applied to describe fluid mechanics, the mesh-less SPH method is used to discretize a volume of fluid as a set of particles, the motion of which is dictated by the Navier–Stokes (NS) equations. These particles represent the nodal points where physical quantities (for example position, velocity, density, pressure) are approximated with an interpolation of the values of the neighboring particles on short-ranged compact support [41,42]. The technique is ideal for studying violent flows for its inherent absence of mesh distortion and can easily deal with multi-phase simulations because each particle stores its own properties. The SPH method has been used to describe a variety of free-surface flows (wave propagation over beaches, plunging breakers, impact on structures, and dambreaks [43,44,45,46,47,48,49]).
The mathematical fundamentals of the SPH method are based on the approximation of any quantities by convolution integrals. Any function F can be defined by:
F ( r ) = F ( r ) W ( r r ) d r
where W is the kernel function [50], r is the position of the point where the function is being computed, r is the position of a generic computational point. This function F can be approximated by the interpolating particle contributions; a summation is performed all over the particles within the compact support of the kernel:
F ( r a ) b F ( r b ) W ( r a r b , h ) m b ρ b
where a is the interpolated particle, b is a neighboring particle, m and ρ being the mass and the density, respectively, m b / ρ b the volume associated with the neighboring particle b, and h is the smoothing length. The kernel functions W fulfils several properties, such as positivity on the compact support, normalization, and monotonically decreasing with distance [51]. Several methodologies are available; one option is the piecewise polynomial Quintic Wendland kernel [52]:
W ( q ) = α D 1 q 2 4 ( 2 q + 1 ) 0 q 2
where α D is a real number such that the kernel ensures the normalization property ( W a b = 1 ), q = r / h is the non-dimensional distance between particles, and r is the distance between a certain particle a and another particle b. In this way the Wendland kernel is used here to compute interactions of particles at a distance up to the value of 2 h .
In the Lagrangian framework, the differential form of the NS equations can be written in a discrete version using the kernel function:
d v a d t = b m b P a + P b ρ a ρ b + Π a b a W a b + g
d ρ a d t = ρ a b m b ρ b v ab a W a b + 2 δ h c b ( ρ b ρ a ) v ab a W a b r ab 2 m b ρ b
where t is the time, v is the velocity, P pressure, g is the gravitational acceleration, a is the gradient operator, W a b the kernel function, whose value depends on the distance between a and b, r a b = r a r b with r k being the position of the kth particle, and c is the speed of sound.
The artificial viscosity term, Π a b , is the artificial viscosity is added in the momentum equation based on the Neumann–Richtmeyer artificial viscosity, aiming to reduce oscillations and stabilize the SPH scheme, following the work of [51]:
Π a b = { α c a b ¯ ρ a b ¯ h v a b · r a b r a b + η 2 if v a b · r a b < 0 ; 0 0 0 if v a b · r a b 0 ;
where v a b = v a v b with v k being the velocity of the kth particle, c a b ¯ and ρ a b ¯ are respectively the mean speed of sound and density, α is the artificial viscosity coefficient and η = 0.1 h guarantees a non-singular operator. It can be shown that Π a b ν 0 2 v , where ν 0 is the kinematic viscosity.
In addition, a density diffusion term is implemented in DualSPHysics, which works as a high frequency numerical noise filter improving the stability of the scheme by smoothing the density. The formulation is based on the density diffusion terms introduced by Molteni and Colagrossi (2009) [53] and further developed with the name of delta-SPH by Antuono et al., (2010) and Antuono et al., (2012) [44,54]. In DualSPHysics the second term in the right-hand side of the continuity Equation (5) was proposed by Fourtakas et al., (2019) [55] as a modification of the previous cited works and δ the coefficient that controls the intensity of the diffusive term.
A relationship between density and pressure bonds the system of equations. DualSPHysics uses a weakly compressible SPH formulation (WCSPH) for modelling Newtonian fluids and, for such formulation, Tait’s equation of state is used to determine fluid pressure, P, from particle density.
P = c 2 ρ 0 γ ρ ρ 0 γ 1
where ρ 0 is the reference fluid density, γ is the polytropic constant. The fluid compressibility is adjusted so that c can be artificially lowered to assure reasonable values for the timesteps.
The Symplectic time integration explicit scheme [56], which is second order accurate, takes the following form, accounting for the weakly compressible formulation, for solving the position of the particle a at the step n + 1 :
r a n + 1 / 2 = r a n + Δ t 2 v a n v a n + 1 / 2 = v a n + Δ t 2 F a n v a n + 1 = v a n + Δ t 2 F a n + 1 / 2 r a n + 1 = r a n + Δ t v a n + 1 / 2 + v a n 2
where F a = d v a / d t , and v a = d r a / d t .
The density is updated at the subsequent temporal step by means of a similar two-step strategy, which reads:
ρ a n + 1 / 2 = ρ a n + Δ t 2 R a n ρ a n + 1 = ρ a n + 2 + R a n + 1 / 2 ρ a n + 1 / 2 Δ t 2 R a n + 1 / 2 ρ a n + 1 / 2 Δ t
where R a = d ρ a / d t .
As depicted in Monaghan et al., (1999) [57], a variable time stepping can be used, and considering the Courant-Friedrich-Lewy (CFL) condition, the force terms and the viscous diffusion term, it can be calculated as follows:
Δ t = C C F L m i n a h | f a | , h c + m a x a | h v a · r a | r a b 2 + η 2
where f a is the force per unit mass.
Finally, it is important to mention that the initial condition in DualSPHysics is generated using a pre-processing tool that creates particles with an initial inter-particle of d p . This value also defines the resolution used in the simulations. Fluid particles and solid particles, either part of a floating object or of other solids, are then created following this initial spacing at the initial time step.

2.2. Fluid-Solid Interaction

The fluid-driven body can be easily implemented into an SPH domain. The movement of objects interacting with fluid particles in DualSPHysics is handled with different techniques. A full SPH model can deal with a rigid body by summing the total force contributions of the surrounding fluid. By assuming that a body is rigid, the net force on each boundary particle is computed according to the designated kernel function and smoothing length. Each boundary particle k experiences a force per unit mass given by:
f k = b f l u i d f k b
where f k b is the force per unit mass exerted by the fluid particle b on the boundary particle k. For the motion of a rigid body, the basic equations of rigid body dynamics can then be used:
M d V d t = k b o d y m k f k
I d Ω d t = k b o d y m k ( r k r 0 ) f k
where M is the mass of the object, I is the moment of inertia, V is the velocity, Ω the angular velocity, r k position of the particle k, and r 0 the center of mass; ∧ indicates the cross product. Equations (12) and (13) are integrated in time to predict the values of V and Ω at the beginning of the next time step. Each boundary particle within the body has a velocity given by:
v k = V + Ω ( r k r 0 )
Finally, the boundary particles within the rigid body are moved by integrating Equation (14) in time. This approach has been checked out by Monaghan et al., (2003) [58], which shows that linear and angular momentum are conservative properties. Validations about buoyancy-driven motion are performed in Canelas et al., 2015 [59], where DualSPHysics is tested for solid objects larger than the smallest flow scales and with various densities.

2.3. Dynamic Boundary Conditions

DualSPHysics implements the Dynamic Boundary Condition (DBC), proposed by Crespo et al., (2007) [60], as a standard method for the definition of the boundary conditions. According to this method, the set of particles that identifies the boundary region share properties that are consistent with the fluid particles, i.e., satisfying the set of Equations (4)–(6). Differently from what is done for the fluid particles, the dynamics of the boundary particles can be controlled by other system conditions, such as they can be either fixed, when they make up stationary elements, or they can move according to imposed/assigned functions. This approach is advantageous when considering that there is no special treatment to be applied for the interaction with fluid particles, and has been used for several applications.

2.4. Open Boundary Conditions

DualSPHysics includes open boundary conditions through buffer zones, which are therefore characterized as inflow/outflow areas. In principle, buffer areas are composed of several layers of particles that are mainly deployed to ensure kernel completeness, thus ensuring a safe process of adding/removing particles. Over those areas, the physical quantities (velocity, density, pressure, and surface elevation) can be either imposed or extrapolated from the adjacent fluid domain. Extrapolated velocity and density are obtained using ghost nodes in the near fluid region, where fluid quantities are computed by interpolation and applying the procedure proposed by Liu and Liu (2006) [61] to restore the lack of completeness of the kernel’s support. The complete algorithm is explained in detail by Tafuni et al., (2018) in [62]. This last work presents the first implementation of the open boundary conditions in DualSPHysics and provides a validation for the open-channel flows. Other validation for more complex channel flows can be found in Ref. [63] where a vertical slot fishway is modelled.

2.5. Coupling with Project Chrono

The DualSPHysics framework handles mechanical laws among rigid bodies via the solvers provided by Project Chrono [64]. The Project Chrono library has been implemented into the original framework, creating an integrated interface for simulating structure-structure interaction as well. The library is primarily developed to handle very large systems of 3D rigid bodies [65]. The coupling allows for arbitrarily shaped bodies to be considered, and the solver can integrate externally applied forces and torques, and the effects of kinematic-type restrictions, dynamic-type restrictions and internal collisions. For the aim of this paper, the hull motion is handled by Project Chrono.

3. Benchmark Experimental Data

3.1. Experimental Data

The experimental data reported in this paper refers to the hydrodynamic performance of the C1 hull, which is part of the Naples Systematic Series (NSS). The main dimension of the C1 hull is available in Table 2. The NSS is a systematic series of warped planing hulls and it is composed of five models, four of which are derived from the parent C1 hull, shown in Figure 1. The range of velocity tested is for F r between 0.5 and 1.6. For a full overview of the tested cases see De Luca et al., (2017) [66].

3.2. Testing Facility

The tests were performed in the towing tank at the Naval Division of the DII (Department of Industrial Engineering) of the Università Degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” (Italy). The main dimensions of the towing tank were length 136.00 m, width 9.00 m, and depth 4.50 m. A view of the towing tank carriage is available in Figure 2a,b.
The towing force was applied horizontally at the towing point, the coordinates of which are: T H = 0.191 m in the vertical direction (z) from the hull baseline, T L = 0.945 m in the longitudinal direction (x) from the hull stern (equal to the longitudinal position of the center of buoyancy of the hull), and on the symmetry plane of the hull ( y = 0 ). The models were tested at Reynolds Number ( R e ) higher than 3.5 · 10 6 , without turbulence stimulators, and the effects of the surge, sway, yaw, and roll were not considered. The only allowed motions are the pitch and heave. Hence, the data acquired during the tests are the hull total resistance, heave motion (also called dynamic sinkage), and the dynamic trim angle. All the measurements have been sampled at 500 Hz. Resistance, trim angle, and sinkage were analyzed in both the time and frequency domain to assure the validity of each test. Moreover, before each test, the residual waves were measured to minimize noise and to make the tests comparable among all the models. Furthermore, a specific focus was taken to keep the experimental uncertainty as small as possible, following all the International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC) recommendations and suggestions for the experimental procedures [66].

4. Numerical Setup

This section illustrates the main steps to follow to obtain the working model. The key features of this setup are the free-surface flow and the towing system. The physical tests are performed by moving the hull with a carrier at an assigned speed through still water. However, for the sake of numerical feasibility, within this numerical framework, the motion of the hull is mimicked by a free-surface flow, the velocity of which corresponds to the hull speed. Please note that this strategy represents one of the commonest approaches for the sake of numerical reproduction of experiments of this kind. As such, the degrees of freedom that the towing system deploys must differ. As opposed to the test facility, the numerical counterpart of the towing arm is fixed ( T o w i n g s y s t e m in Figure 3a). The hull is attached to a vertical (z) slider (with no friction) from its towing point ( T L and T H ), ensuring heaving motions. At this last location, a cylindrical hinge guarantees the pitch motion, thus complying with the physical model overall restrictions. For the sake of completeness, the rigid algorithms that dictate the hull’s motion are governed by the Project Chrono library, as detailed in Section 2.5.
Figure 3a depicts a schematic view of the main features of the numerical model. The free-surface current is simulated with the inlet/outlet feature (described in Section 2.4). At the left-hand side of the domain, an inlet zone is placed. The buffer (buffer-in) that controls the motion of the particles with a smoothing function that guarantees the uniform imposed velocity V i n at the buffer threshold. On the flip side of the domain, an outlet zone takes place (buffer-out). For this side, to get an outflow consistent with the preceding area, an extrapolated method for controlling the velocity is applied, which ensures that the fluid exits undisturbed from the domain ( V = V + ); at the inlet and outlet zones, density is also extrapolated from the adjacent fluid domain. Moreover, for the complete definition of the open channel, the free-surface level must be defined on both sides of it. The lateral walls, which are parallel to the direction of the flow (y) are treated with periodic boundary conditions (Gómez-Gesteira et al., 2012 [67]). Figure 3a reports the quantity drag as it is computed from the system, which represents the reaction force that is experienced by the mechanical constraint handled by the Project Chrono routine.
Section 3 exposes the main geometry of the hull under study and, based on such dimensions, the numerical model takes shape. Please note that the model does not reproduce the whole bulk of the facility; an alternate, the reduced domain is used in its stead. The towing system is located at D T = 1.555 , which yields the bow of the hull 0.50 m away from the inlet to avoid the part of the current where local effects could be still in place. Therefore, L is set to twice L O A , for this value is deemed to be sufficient for the evaluation of the three main parameters under control, i.e., the drag force, dynamic sinkage, and trim angle. To avoid any blockage effects from the lateral walls, the width of the domain is set 5 B W L , plus periodic boundary conditions are used to reduce the drag due to the lateral walls. For the definition of the channel depth, a proper value is defined avoiding any shallow water effect. It is proved that for this specific problem, at a depth of three times the hull maximum draft T m , the hull does not experience any effects from the tank bottom (Duarte et al., 2016 [68]). In the wake of this, the water depth is set to 0.500 m. It is worth noticing that a sensitivity analysis was carried out on account of this aspect; it confirmed the goodness of the considered water depth. The fluid in the tank is initialized with a uniform velocity distribution, corresponding to the current velocity, and with hydrostatic pressure distribution. Finally, three different initial particle sizes are considered, namely d p = 0.012 , 0.009 , 0.006 m, so that the distances for particle interactions are 2 h = 0.048 , 0.036 , 0.024 m, respectively. The most refined resolution guarantees eight particles in the minimum foreseen draft (around 5 cm), according to the study proposed in Rota Roselli et al., (2018) [69]. As it turns out, such value is sufficient to accurately discretize the external features of the hull because the surface is smooth and without sudden variations.

5. Results

5.1. Hydrostatic Test

To check the correct balancing of the hull into the water in terms of forces and moments, a still water test with zero speed has been performed. Due to the granular nature of the SPH discretization, such test is also necessary before executing numerical simulations to check any inconsistency with a real case. Figure 4 depicts the results of the hydrostatic simulations performed for the hull positioned in the center of the tank ( D T = L O A ). The two in/outlet domains are disabled. This test was done for three different initial particle resolutions, namely d p = 0.012 , 0.009 , 0.006 m, and the static sinkage, static trim angle, and vertical net force are monitored.
It can be seen from the charts presented in Figure 4a,b that the floating line tend to the theoretical (i.e., sinkage = 0.0 mm) one as the particle resolution decreases. The net vertical forces, as depicted in Figure 4c, demonstrate that the hull achieves equilibrium around one second of simulation. The starting points of the time series that can be observed in Figure 4a are due to the different initial lattices on which the shape of the hull is drawn, yielding a slightly different center of gravity for each resolution. In the same fashion, the misalignment between the static trim angle and the theoretical one can be explained by a small initial deviation of the center of buoyancy from the position of the towing point. Furthermore, the output of the hydrostatic analysis is applied to correct the simulation results, for the dynamic trim angle and sinkage, exposed in the next paragraph.

5.2. Total Resistance, Dynamic Trim Angle, and Sinkage

The model is herein compared with the data from the experimental campaign exposed in Section 3. The benchmark tests considered for comparison purposes are F r = 0.618 , 0.824 , 1.031 , 1.237 , 1.443 , which respectively correspond to a current velocity V i n = 3.00 , 4.00 , 5.00 , 6.00 , 7.00 m/s. This speed range fully covers the pre-planing, transient, and planing regime of the C1 hull. The three resolutions used for the hydrostatic tests are considered here.
Figure 5 compares the total resistance, dynamic sinkage, and dynamic trim angle between experimental and SPH results for the three investigated resolutions. The values reported for the SPH simulations are the average values calculated from time series covering 4.00 s of simulation, which are taken after one second of simulation. The cut-out is important to avoid initial transient states, in which the model adjusts itself to achieve a stable dynamic behavior. The experimental reference data are the average values calculated from time series that cover much longer time windows—depending on the length of the towing tank and the forward velocity. The values herein reported correspond to time series of 20 s for the lower bound velocity ( 3.00 m/s) and of around 10 s ( 7.00 m/s) for the upper bound. Please note that the shorter time windows used to average the investigated quantities, for the numerical model, do not affect the accuracy of the results due to lower variability observed in the outcomes of the simulations. The general trend depicted in Figure 5 underlines the model convergence.
Table 3 proposes the percentage discrepancies between the outcomes of the numerical method and the experimental test for the three variables under analysis, for the finest resolution d p = 0.006 m. Observing Table 3 and Figure 5, it is visible that the numerical method shows an acceptable agreement with the experimental results, though the dynamic sinkage error is high in the pre-planing regime. It is noteworthy to observe that the high percentage error for the dynamic sinkage is strictly connected to the small values of this parameter. For a more comprehensive picture about the validity of the results here exposed, it is possible to refer to the results shown in De Luca et al., 2016 [18], where the URANS CD-Adapco Star-CCM+ is used. The general trend shown in this last work is almost in line with the results obtained through the presented SPH model for the higher resolution; it is possible to recognize the same inaccuracy when dynamic trim predictions are considered. On the other hand, the good performance of the proposed numerical model for the running attitude parameters directly implies the great accuracy shown by resistance prediction; details of this point are analyzed in the next sub-paragraph.
All the simulations are run on an NVIDIA© GeForce RTX 2080 Ti with 12GB of RAM and their outcomes are used to evaluate the performance of the model. Using the highest resolution ( d p = 0.006 m) a total number of 33.3 million particles are created at its initial stage; the presence of a current; however, contributes to a rate of in/out particles that is, on average, of around 40 million a second. This indeed affects the runtime, which finally amounts to 104 h (≈ 4 days) per 5.00 s of physical time - on average.

5.3. Whisker Spray

The spray region is a complex area located forward the stagnation line. According to Savitsky and Morabito (2011) [70], the stagnation line is defined as “the locus of points on the bottom along which the flow is divided into forward and aft components and on which the pressure is a maximum and is developed from bringing to rest the component of free stream velocity normal to this line”. The spray region can be divided into two different patterns: the whisker spray and the main spray. The whisker spray is a stream of small droplets of water projected out of the chine with a trajectory essentially equal to the local deadrise angle. The main spray, instead, is a cone-shaped discharge of water (continuous blister) with its apex located near the intersection of the stagnation line and the chine. The outboard trajectory of the main spray is significantly elevated compared to the whisker spray trajectory. The sprays (whisker and main) departs from the chine line and the extension is bounded by the spray edges. The spray area on the hull bottom is created as the craft moves through the water at high speeds (planing regime speeds).
In scaled models, the sprays appear as continuous sheets, while in full scale, the sheet is broken up into numerous droplets due to the effects of the surface tension that generally, for smaller scales, are relatively large compared to the inertia forces. The spray region and its features are shown in Figure 6 for the C1 hull at F r = 1.443 . The spray can account for 15% to 20% of total high-speed craft resistance. The most comprehensive experimental studies about spray are Savitsky et al., (2007) [71] and Savitsky and Morabito (2011) [70].
Making a comparison of Figure 6 with a snapshot taken from the simulation at the same speed (Figure 7), it is easy to recognize the same spray structures, as highlighted in Figure 7 with a perspective view of the numerical model. The visual comparison, as exposed in this paragraph, demonstrates that the SPH model can reproduce a planing hull at high-speed, well-capturing the whisker spray area as well. This granular definition of the spray area represents a general improvement compared to what mesh-based codes can perform. It comes at a cost of an expensive computational time, which however proves to be still manageable with the right facility. Anyway, it must be underlined that as opposed to most of the mesh-based codes, the post-process is inexpensive.

6. Conclusions

A numerical validation procedure is successfully carried out by comparing experimental and numerical results. The hydrostatic test is first presented to ensure the correct modelling of the hull’s shape with three different resolutions. The same initial inter-particle distances are used for the validation procedure, which follows the comparison of the dynamics of the hull, by considering the total resistance, sinkage, and dynamic trim angle for the five F r numbers, demonstrating that the model setup is viable for reproducing with accuracy the free-flow current and the towing system. The model proposed in this work has shown a good agreement with the experimental data and has provided a good level of accuracy if compared with the mesh-based approach presented in [66].
This work provides a visual analysis of the spray zone, which has no counterpart in the reference paper. The mesh-less nature of the numerical scheme herein used shows to have no shortcomings in reproducing whisker and main spray areas, while correctly simulating the solid-fluid interactions. One instant of the simulation with Fr = 1.443 is visually compared with the same area of interest in the corresponding physical test. At a glance, this comparison returns a clear and consistent overall picture, which allows identifying many features of the spray area. A whisker spray is clearly defined along with the spray root, though slightly shifted toward the aft of the hull. The main spray structures and the spray edges are also visible and in close agreement with the experimental ones. For the model can capture the whisker spray area with enough accuracy, this could be considered to be the reason for the closer estimation that the model can provide for the total resistance and dynamic trim angle.
This work lies down a groundwork on which subsequent experimental studies can be complemented by numerical analyses, in the field of naval engineering. The multiphysics solver, DualSPHysics, is employed to reproduce a test setup that is commonly used to work out the performance of planing hulls. The great versatility of the code allows building the main features of the facility with ease. For the particular case of planing hulls, where the high non-linearities of the fluid flow are critical, the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method poses a good compromise between accuracy and computational effort. As has been shown through the information reported in this work, the model can achieve a sufficient degree of accuracy for the evaluation of the planing hull performance. The model setup is thoroughly reported, and it is quite straightforward to reproduce if enough knowledge about the physical tests is at hand.
The next step of this investigation will be the application of the SPH method not only to the still water resistance tests but also to the planing hull simulations in regular and irregular waves [72], to extend the engineering applications of the SPH method in the marine hydrodynamic field. Furthermore, a finer resolution will be applied to investigate the resistance of the planing hull equipped with interceptor/intruder, spray rails, and steps.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, S.M.; methodology, B.T. and S.M.; software, J.M.D., B.T., P.R.-G. and A.J.C.C.; validation, B.T., S.M.; formal analysis, B.T. and P.R.-G., J.M.D.; investigation, S.M. and B.T.; resources, A.J.C.C. and G.V.; data curation, B.T. and S.M.; writing original draft preparation, S.M., B.T., A.J.C.C., P.R.-G., G.V.; revision, S.M., B.T., A.J.C.C., J.M.D.; visualization, S.M. and B.T.; supervision, G.V. and A.J.C.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

The experimental data presented in this study are openly available in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2017.04.038 (accessed on 18 February 2021).

Acknowledgments

The first author of this manuscript wishes to express his gratitude to the IT support provided by Orlando Garcia-Feal, who made possible the use of the HPC system at monkey-island.uvigo.es.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:
BEMBoundary Element Method
CCPCone Complementary Problem
CFDComputational Fluid Dynamics
CFLCourant-Friedrich-Lewy Number
DBCDynamic Boundary Condition
DIIDepartment of Industrial Engineering
DVIDifferential Variational Inequality
FrFroude Number
FVMFinite Volume Method
GPUGraphics Processing Unit
HSMVHigh-Speed Marine Vehicle
ITTCInternational Towing Tank Conference
LCBLongitudinal position of the Center of Buoyancy
NFANumerical Flow Analysis
NSNavier–Stokes
NSSNaples Systematic Series
ReReynolds Number
(U)RANS(Unsteady) Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes
SPHSmoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
V&VVerification & Validation
VOFVolume of Fluid
WCSPHWeakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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Figure 1. Transversal and longitudinal sections of C1 model with the water level.
Figure 1. Transversal and longitudinal sections of C1 model with the water level.
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Figure 2. Front view of the towing carriage (a) and lateral view with model and towing harm (b).
Figure 2. Front view of the towing carriage (a) and lateral view with model and towing harm (b).
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Figure 3. (a) Schematic of the numerical domain; (b) 3-D view of the bulk of the domain.
Figure 3. (a) Schematic of the numerical domain; (b) 3-D view of the bulk of the domain.
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Figure 4. Static sinkage (a), static trim angle (b), and net vertical force (c) in hydrostatic condition (still water with zero-speed flow test).
Figure 4. Static sinkage (a), static trim angle (b), and net vertical force (c) in hydrostatic condition (still water with zero-speed flow test).
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Figure 5. Total Resistance (a), dynamic trim angle (b), and dynamic sinkage (c) comparison between experimental and SPH simulations.
Figure 5. Total Resistance (a), dynamic trim angle (b), and dynamic sinkage (c) comparison between experimental and SPH simulations.
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Figure 6. C1 hull at F r = 1.443 , (A) Whisker spray, (B) Main spray, (C) Spray edge (red line), (D) Spray root, (E) Reflection of the spray edge.
Figure 6. C1 hull at F r = 1.443 , (A) Whisker spray, (B) Main spray, (C) Spray edge (red line), (D) Spray root, (E) Reflection of the spray edge.
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Figure 7. C1 hull simulated at F r = 1.443 , (A) Whisker spray, (B) Main spray, (C) Spray edge (red line), (D) Spray root.
Figure 7. C1 hull simulated at F r = 1.443 , (A) Whisker spray, (B) Main spray, (C) Spray edge (red line), (D) Spray root.
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Table 1. Details of the cited studies.
Table 1. Details of the cited studies.
AuthorsYearType of StudyType of High-Speed CraftTest ConditionsV&V *
Thornhill et al. [5]2003ExperimentalPrismatic planing hullStill waterno
Begovic and Bertorello [6]2012ExperimentalPrismatic and warped planing hullStill waterno
Matveev [7]2014AnalyticalWarped planing hullStill waterno
Sukas et al. [8]2015Experimental and NumericalPrismatic and Warped planing hullStill wateryes
Jiang et al. [9]2016Experimental and NumericalPlaning trimaran hullStill wateryes
De Marco et al. [10]2017Experimental and NumericalStepped hullStill wateryes
Niazmand Bilandi et al. [11]2018Analytical and ExperimentalStepped hullStill waterno
Tavakoli et al. [12]2020Experimental, Numerical, and AnalyticalWarped planing hullStill water, Regular wavesyes
* Verification and Validation.
Table 2. Main data of the parent hull of NSS (C1 Hull).
Table 2. Main data of the parent hull of NSS (C1 Hull).
Hull DimensionsUnitC1 Hull
L O A Length overall[m]2.611
L W L Length waterline[m]2.400
B W L Beam waterline[m]0.743
T m Hull draft max[m]0.167
Δ Displacement[kg]106.07
S W S Wetted Surface[m2]1.70
τ S Static trim[deg]0.0
L / B Length to beam ratio 3.45
L / 1 / 3 Length to volume ratio 5.11
Table 3. Percentage comparison error between experimental and SPH and simulations with d p = 0.006 m for the three variables (total resistance, dynamic trim angle, and sinkage).
Table 3. Percentage comparison error between experimental and SPH and simulations with d p = 0.006 m for the three variables (total resistance, dynamic trim angle, and sinkage).
Fr Total ResistanceDynamic Trim AngleDynamic Sinkage
0.6183.52%−17.92%319.73%
0.824−1.89%−6.89%53.41%
1.031−5.34%−6.55%0.53%
1.237−0.55%−6.15%−16.95%
1.443−3.29%−2.04%16.20%
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