Experimental Assessment of Planing Hulls Added Resistance in Regular Waves

Abstract: Amid a global effort in reducing the shipping ecologic impact, the study of the particular case of added resistance of high speed vessels cruising in a seaway has been approached by a very limited number of authors. In this study, we provide a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the added resistance of a planing hull in regular waves. The data are analyzed in both the time and frequency domains in order to fully characterize the added resistance and highlight its correlation with hull motions. It is found that peak added resistance modulation occurs for shorter waves with respect to the peak average added resistance, and slenderness is beneficial only in terms of modulation. Nonlinearity of both the average and first harmonic amplitude is also shown. In addition, results of the phase analysis show a correlation between the added resistance phase and average added resistance.