Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations for high-speed wigley hull in deep and shallow water

Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes simulations and verification and validation studies for a high-speed Wigley hull in deep and shallow water are presented using CFD-SHIP-IOWA Version 4.00, which is a general-purpose ship hydrodynamics computational fluid dynamics code: single-phase level set free surface and k-w turbulence modeling; higher-order conservative discretization, embedded overset grids, advanced iterative solvers, and implicit coupling flow field and predicted motions numerical methods; and high-performance computing for message-passing interface (MPI)-based domain decomposition. The results are presented for low to high speed and deep to shallow water. The investigation is exploratory in nature using an idealized geometry and relatively coarse grids. Based on the verification and validation results, modifications for increased grid resolution at the bow for high speed and improved grid orthogonality for shallow water are made to obtain better solutions. The flow physics observations provide both integral and differential views of the highspeed and shallow-water flow fields, including resistance, pressure variation, wave pattern, boundary layer, and vortices.