Numerical Investigation on Flood Water Sloshing Influence on Intact and Damaged Stability of Ship

Abstract

Sloshing affects the intact and damage stability of the ship, which causes variation in dynamic metacentric height (GM) under critical load conditions. The transient flooding soon after the ship damage is analyzed, with floodwater accumulation in large space and causing the ship to suffer huge heel angles. The ship motion and stability changes when sloshing becomes high in partially flooded compartments. Most of the previous researches focus on the motion response of ship alone, hence the variation of stability due to sloshing is to be more critically studied. In the present study, three critical damage locations are identified and flooding through these locations are analyzed using the volume of fluids method. The method focus on finding damage ship motion response, flood water dynamics, and coupled dynamics of both. This is studied using the numerical method FLOW3D. Motion and stability behaviour will be different for different damage locations; hence portside, starboard-side, and aft-end bottom damage cases are considered. The effect of compartment shape and damage location on motion response and stability of the damaged ship is highlighted.