RESEARCH ON HULL-FORM OPTIMIZATION OF A PASSENGER SHIP USING HULL-FORM MODIFICATION ALGORITHM WITH GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION

The present study proposes an automatic hull form control algorithm to effectively control the hull form of a ship. A Gaussian distribution function is implemented in the proposed algorithm that automatically controls the hull form in conjunction with an optimization algorithm that is executed during the hull form optimization procedure. The hull form optimization algorithm adopts sequential quadratic programming for the optimizer, and the wave-making resistance is used as an objective function and is solved using the potential-based panel method. A high-speed passenger ship is selected as the target ship, and the results of a numerical analysis of the original hull are compared to those of the optimized hull obtained using the hull form optimization in order to verify the effectiveness of the hull-form optimization technique using the proposed automatic hull form control algorithm