A summary of the Lucy Ashton resistance prediction workshop
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2026

A blind full-scale CFD resistance prediction workshop was held in 2024, with the Lucy Ashton paddle steamer as its test case. Results from forty participants were received for the three different parts in which the workshop was organised, which consisted of a grid refinement study with common grids, full-scale simulations for varying Froude number, and model-scale simulations at a constant Froude number for varying model sizes. This paper presents a summary of the results gathered for the workshop along with its main findings, and the comparison with the results available from the experimental campaign carried out for the Lucy Ashton in the 1950s. The computational results led to lower ship resistance than the experimental data for all conditions, due to the simulations considering the ship to be hydrodynamically smooth and to not heave or pitch. The scatter of the resistance at full-scale showed a decreasing trend as the Froude number was increased with a median absolute deviation of at most 2.3 %. The spread in the numerical results obtained for the full-scale conditions was equivalent to that observed for the model-scale cases, building further confidence in full-scale CFD.

Full-scale

Workshop

Resistance

RANS

Författare

Rui Miguel Alves Lopes

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Marin teknik

Arash Eslamdoost

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Marin teknik

Rickard Everyd Bensow

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Marin teknik

Dmitriy Ponkratov

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Anja Kompe

Meyer Werft

Paolo Geremia

ENGYS

Cagan Birant Pekkucu

SEFT Engineering

Cagri Aydin

Damen

Diego Villa

Università degli Studi di Genova

Dimitris Ntouras

SimFWD

Dong Cheol Seo

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

Gennaro Rosano

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Florian Vesting

Volupe

Gabriele Biginil

Van Oossanen Naval Architects BV

Guillermo Chillcce

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Jan Kaufmannn

DST

Jianfeng Lin

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Joao Muralha

blueOASIS

Lukas Dott

Schottel GmbH

Kaan Ilter

Brookes Bell

Dimitrios S. Lampropoulos

Hellenic Open University

FEAC Engineering

Kristian Sagmo

SINTEF

Lars Lubke

SVA Potsdam

Masaya Kubota

Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Co Ltd

Matija Vasilev

Ocean Pro

Miles Wheelery

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Muhammed Sahid

Cochin Shipyard Ltd

Carlo Giorgio Grlj

Sveučilište u Zagrebu

Niklas Kuhl

Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (HSVA)

Pierre Crepier

Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN)

Ramkumar Joga

Indian Register of Shipping

Rasul Niazmand Bilandi

Tallinns tekniska universitet (TalTech)

FORCE Technology

Marcus Boyd

Cape Horn Engineering

Alvaro Del Toro

Kongsberg Maritime

Shona Cunningham

BMT Group

Simone Bozzo

Università degli Studi di Genova

Fabian Schumacher

IBMV Maritime Innovationsgesellschaft

Themistoklis Melissaris

Wärtsilä Netherlands BV

Vincent Tissot

Sirehna

Vincenzo Sorrentino

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Wim Van Hoydonck

Waterbouwkundig Lab Flanders

Zhao-Hui Li

Marine Design and Research Institute of China

Ocean Engineering

0029-8018 (ISSN)

Vol. 343 122951

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Strömningsmekanik

Farkost och rymdteknik

DOI

10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.122951

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