[sita]

Dear all,

About a month ago I started a new job, and one of my first projects is to set up OpenFOAM for ship hydrodynamics (mainly calm water resistance computations for now). Up to now the people here have been using Numeca's Fine Marine, and the idea is to have OpenFOAM as an additional tool. We have a working version of OpenFOAM-5.x on a Scientific Linux cluster, and I've just installed OpenFOAM-dev next to that.

I've been looking around on this forum and on the internet in general, and there seem to be a lot of options for ship hydrodynamics in OpenFOAM: interFoam, interDyMFoam, Naval Hydro Pack (although that seems to have turned into a commercial package by now). There's even a ship hydrodynamics SIG, but I'm not sure whether that's still active (the link for joining the mailing list no longer works, for example).

My main issue here is that most of the information I found is already a few years old, and as a consequence, some of the packages/solvers that are discussed no longer exist (e.g. LTSinterFoam), links no longer work, and issues that are discussed may have been resolved by now.

The DTCHull tutorials are nice to start with, especially with the Duisburg Test Case paper as a reference, but I can't find any information about how these tutorials were set up and why (i.e. choice of boundary/initial conditions, mesh refinement, settings in fvSolution and fvSchemes, etc.)

So I was wondering: as of OpenFOAM-6, what would be the best solver to use for calm water resistance computations on ship hulls? And where can I find detailed information on how to use this solver?

Many thanks!
Sita