An assessment of prediction methods for waves inside the moonpool of a vessel(comparisons of numerical solutions with experiments)

This paper presents a preliminary assessment of the computational accuracy and efficiency of three different prediction methods for the water motion inside the moonpool of a rectangular box with forced vertical motion in a water tank. The first method is a linear solution method based on the linear wave diffraction/radiation theory (WAMIT). The second one is a method based on a CFD simulation (STAR-CCM+), the third method is a hybrid method combining a potential flow solver and a viscous flow solver (PVC3D). The accuracy of each method is assessed by comparing the prediction with the physical test data. The computational efficiency (complexity of setting up the computation and the computation speed) of the methods is discussed.