Introduction, Conclusions and Recommendations

Book chapter, 2014

The Gothenburg 2010 Workshop on CFD in Hydrodynamics was the sixth in a series started in 1980. The purpose of the Workshops is to regularly assess the state of the art in Numerical Hydrodynamics and to provide guidelines for further developments in the area. The 2010 Workshop was by far the largest one so far, with 33 participating groups of CFD specialists and a larger number of test cases than before. All participants submitted their computed results during the fall of 2010. The results were compiled by the organizers and discussed at a meeting in Gothenburg in December 2010. In Chap. 1 the background and development of the Workshops since the start are presented. The three hulls used in the 2010 Workshop are introduced and the computations requested from the participants are specified. Based on a questionnaire sent to all participants the details of their CFD methods are listed, and finally the general conclusions and recommendation for future Workshops are presented. The detailed results of the computations are discussed in subsequent Chapters.