Comparative Study Assessing the Relative Contributions of Ship Resistance Factors Based on Data Analysis

Abstract

Ship resistance has a very important value in the determination of ship power and the design of emission standards. In this paper, a ship resistance model with different displacement, speed, and attachment under the condition of a fixed scale ratio is tested by means of experimental research, which is used to analyze the change law of ship resistance under the condition of a single factor. The coupling effects of multiple factors on the actual ship power are studied after the establishment of a mathematical relationship between the actual ship power and resistance on the basis of the response surface method. The research results show that: (1) there is an obvious positive correlation between ship resistance and speed, which matches the change law of the exponential equation. Compared with ship appendages, displacement and speed have the greatest influence on resistance. (2) According to the correlation analysis, the maximum correlation coefficient between ship speed/resistance and power is 0.99, and the correlation coefficients between displacement/resistance and power are 0.93 and 0.88, respectively. However, the correlation coefficients between ship appendages and resistance and power are only 0.23 and 0.14, respectively. (3) The actual ship power and speed, displacement, and appendages form a quadratic polynomial relationship. The multi-factor interaction analysis results show that speed and displacement have the greatest influence on the actual ship power. The research results have a certain guiding significance for ship design.