This year, two representatives from Southampton FSIĀ attended ICHD in October. James Hawkes presented work on linear solvers for CFD; and Puram Lakshmynarayanana presented anĀ evaluation of hydrodynamic coefficients of a barge using CFD. The conference was hosted at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. The venue was close to the International High Performance Computing Centre (IHPC) to which Southampton have strong ties. A seminar was given at IHPC following the conference.
The conference covered a very broad range of hydrodynamics applications ā from classical ship hydrodynamics, propeller interactions and cavitation, to coastal pollution flows and flooding simulations. There were four parallel sessions, focusing on different research areas, over the course of four days.
In the ship hydrodynamics sessions there was a strong focus on seakeeping experiments and simulations. There were also interesting presentations focused on manoeuvring, wind-assisted propulsion and sloshing effects.
The two Southampton participants both presented in the Computational Fluid Dynamics session. The session was started by a particularly interesting plenary session by Professor Frederick Stern (University of Iowa) on the recent progress in CFD ā looking at simulations for naval architecture and ocean engineering. The CFD sessions were not limited to ship hydrodynamics, and included presentations on acoustic noise simulation from granular sand dune flows; numerical studies on flexible hydrofoils; hull-shape optimization algorithms; and Lagrangian particle simulations of lock-exchange flows.
The full proceedings will be available soon, at http://www.ichd2014.org .
