Application of CFD Methods for the Assessment of Ship Manoeuvrability in Shallow Water

Safety in water transport plays a significant role. One way to increase safety in the waterways is to ensure that ships have proper manoeuvrability. Evaluation of manoeuvring properties performed at an early stage of design can detect problems that later would be difficult to solve. To make such an analysis the nu-merical methods can be used. In the paper the numerical method to evaluate the ship manoeuvrability on the shallow water is presented. Additionally author shows the procedure of determining hydrodynamic coeffi-cients on a basis of CFD calculation. The simulation results of inland ship was compared with experimental data.