ABSTRACT
Asymmetric flooding condition increases the risk of capsizing for a damaged ship. For this reason, efficient cross-flooding arrangements are needed. This is important, especially for passenger ship designs with double skin or large U-shaped voids in several watertight compartments. This paper presents an advanced method, utilizing time-domain flooding simulation, for design and analysis of cross-flooding devices. Special attention is paid on the selection of the damage scenarios that are used in the assessment of the efficiency of the cross-flooding arrangements. The presented method can be used to confirm the assumption of instantly flooded rooms for probabilistic SOLAS damage stability calculations.
