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36 <strong>Practical</strong> <strong>Ship</strong> <strong>Hydrodynamics</strong><br />

ž Unstructured grids<br />

Unstructured grids allow the largest flexibility in grid generation, but require<br />

far more effort and are therefore not popular for ship flows. However,<br />

unstructured grid programs can also handle structured or block-structured<br />

grids. One may then generate a simple grid and use adaptive grid techniques<br />

which automatically generate unstructured grids in the computation.<br />

Grids should be rather fine in regions of high velocity or pressure gradients.<br />

The curvature of the ship hull and the experience with similar ship hull forms<br />

give some indications where such regions are to be expected, but often one<br />

identifies only after computations regions where the grid should have been<br />

finer. Ideally the computation should refine the grid in these regions automatically<br />

during a computation. Such adaptive grid techniques are subject<br />

to research for ship flows. They should bring considerable progress in accuracy<br />

without increasing computational effort excessively, but require usually<br />

unstructured grid capabilities of the code.

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