Sensitive Analysis of Added Power of Ships on Seaways

Abstract

The aim of this master thesis is to identify most important parameters for the prediction of added power of a ship in waves. Such study enables a better understanding of the added power in waves problem, by allowing one to identify which parameters play a more important role in the final estimation. This study can contribute to the scientific community which is working on a precise numerical solution for this problem by providing a better comprehension on the problem regarding parameters that should be given more effort to achieve a finer tuning. This research is based on a large amount of full-scale container ship data where a comparison between measurements and numerically calculated added power of a ship in waves can be performed. The numerical approach is based on the method proposed by Shigunov V. (2017).