Contribution to Workshop on Ship Wave Resistance

Computations
by G E Gadd, National Maritime Institute, England

1. Introduction

Two methods have been used to obtain the results discussed below. One

is a modified version of Guilloton's method, and the other an improved

version of my method2 using distributions of Rankine sources over the

hull surface and the undisturbed free surface. Outlines of these
methods are given in the next two sections.

2. Guilloton's method

This method requires isobars (lines of constant pressure) to be traced

along the hull. An "equivalent linearized hull" is defined, whose

lateral y offsets, at equal x intervals TJt, are equal to the real -hull
y offsets on the isobars at x intervals ut, where U is ship speed, u

the local velocity on the isobar, and t some appropriate

x component

time interval (say I/^, where L is ship length). The z offsets of

the equivalent linearized hull are the depths Zol, Zo2 of the
isobars when extrapolated far upstream, the top isobar being taken
in the water surface, so that Zol = 0.

To calculate the isobars in the present method the double-model zero

Froude number solution is first found, and k isobars for this case
are traced along the hull, starting from station 10 (FP) at points
equally spaced in
direction with spacing ZKA.
the Z Here ZK is
normally the depth of the keel at station 10, but for a hull form

with a curved keel line, like the Inuid form, it is taken to be the
maximum draft. The keel line, or the false keel line at maximum

draft, is treated as a fifth isobar. (It will not in general be an

isobar, but in any case the Guilloton method runs into difficulties

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