ABSTRACT
The combining of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and optimization techniques is a significant method for automatic multi-scheme selection in hull form optimization, which can improve the design level of energy efficient ship. This paper focuses on hull surface automatic modification and its application in hull form optimization. A new hull surface automatic modification method is proposed, which based on the Radial Basis Function (RBF) interpolation method. The method are applied to hydrodynamic optimization of Series 60. Model tests of original and optimized model are carried out at Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT) for validations. Both of numerical optimization and model tests results show that the proposed method can significantly improve optimization efficiency.
