Study of Wave Added Resistance on Wigley Ship

Global warming is becoming a serious problem nowadays. The emissions of greenhouse gas from vessels draw great attentions. As a significant research part of vessel seakeeping performance, resistance capability exert pretty effect on energy consuming. A Wigley ship model is set as the object to compute constraint and free model in calm water and head waves on resistance and hydrodynamic potential coefficients by STAR-CCM. Differences are discussed between both models. Effects on calculation of hydrostatic resistance ignoring trim and heave are revealed .Wave added resistance of free model is computed and compared at different amplitudes and wavelengths. How trim and heave matter the computed results are discussed. So does how wavelength and amplitudes influence total resistance is considered.