General-Purpose Parallel Unsteady Rans Ship Hydrodynamics Code: CFDSHIP-Iowa

Abstract

CFDSHIP-IOWA is a general-purpose unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes CFD code that has been developed, over the past 10 years, to handle a broad range of ship hydrodynamics problems. Originally designed to support both thesis and project research in the areas of resistance and propulsion, it has been successfully transitioned to Navy and university laboratories and industry, and has recently been extended to unsteady applications such as seakeeping and maneuvering. It was developed following a modern software-development philosophy, which was based upon open source, revision control, modular coding using Fortran 90/95, liberal use of comments, and an easy to understand architecture which enables model development by users.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA458092

Entities

People

  • Eric G. Paterson
  • Fred Stern
  • Robert V. Wilson

Organizations

  • University of Iowa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Froude Number
  • High Performance Computing
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Military Research
  • Steady Flow
  • Viscous Flow

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Marine Hydrodynamics
  • Software Engineering.