HYDRODYNAMICS OF PLANING HULLS: A POWER PREDICTION METHOD FOR WARPED V-BOTTOM HULL FORMS

Planing craft are the most common boats used all around the world for small commercial, military and pleasure craft. Hulls available for planing craft are many, differing for geometry, shape and dimensional ratios. Despite of that, there is a lack of experimental data on these hulls and there are no effective and user-friendly tools, available for Power and Resistance Assessment in the Preliminary Design Phase, except in the case of very simple hull geometry. The goal of this PhD Thesis work is to try out a new effective and robust tool useful to the Resistance Assessment of a non-monohedral planing craft in calm water.