Introduction
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been one of the powerful tools in the field of naval architecture.
CFD Research Group(CRG)'s tasks are to support ship building industries and maritime politics through research, development and application for CFD techniques to ship-hydrodynamics.
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Software Development
‘Make our softwares more and more user-friendly
@|One Click CFDTM
‘Make our softwares more and more accurate and faster
@|Development for turbulence modeling (DES, wall function etc)
@|Wave model implementation
@|Overset grid
@|Code parallelization by OpenMP
Application
‘Static and dynamic maneuvering simulation (PMM)
‘CFD simulations for full-scale ships
‘Evaluation of energy-saving device by CFD
‘CFD simulations for propulsion devices
@|Contra-rotating propeller
@|Water jet
‘CFD analysis for swimmer's performance
