Proposal of Ultra Large Block Coefficient Ship and Fundamental Studies on its Bow Wave Breaking

Abstract

Due to the increase of maritime transportation volume day by day it is necessary to design a ship hull having large carrying capacity with low resistance. For this purpose, the authors propose innovative concepts of Ultra Large Block coefficient Ship (ULBS). In this paper, its concepts and study plans are shown, and its bow wave breaking phenomena are investigated as one of the fundamental studies on ULBS hull form. As experimental studies, wave breaking surface areas caused by ULBS models are measured. As theoretical ones, wave making resistance coefficients and distributions of free surface elevation are evaluated by means of Rankine source method, and distributions of free surface disturbance function