Abstract
Ship roll motion prediction plays an important role in ensuring the safety, anti-capsize of the ship in operation and needs special attention during the design phase. The potential theory, which is widely applied in determining the roll damping coefficient, has low accuracy and needs to be determined by model test. In this paper, free-roll motion in calm water is simulated numerically using commercial software Star-CCM+ together with the application of the grey-box modeling method for the direct calculation of roll damping coefficient. The effect of mesh size, initial roll angle, forward speed, and bilge keels are studied and analyzed; roll damping coefficient are compared with Froude energy,… The obtained results indicate that the proposed hybrid method is a good solution, cost and time saving with a high level of accuracy.