A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF HULL SURFACE TREATMENTS ON SHIP PERFORMANCES

This paper presents a numerical analysis on the induced relation between hull surface roughness and ship performance and discuss how to maintain hull-surface with cost and environmental impact in mind. The analysis is based on CFD simulation of the ship performance due to change of hull surface roughness condition before/after dry-docking and in-water hull cleaning. A typical tanker ship, KVLCC2 is investigated for 14 different partial cleaning cases. The attainable reduction of propulsive power by hull surface treatment is estimated as an index, Cleaning Efficiency Index ( CEI ). A clear understanding is obtained how hull geometry has profound implication for the effect of roughness on the change of power. Partial hull cleaning of fore-end and stern-aft part of the hull was found to give higher relative CEI than entire hull cleaning. The present study provides guidelines which part of the hull to treat during dry-docking and hull cleaning process with better quality or higher priority if necessary.