Joe Banks and Charles Badoe represented FSI at the 2014 SIMMAN workshop http://www.simman2014.dk/  held in Lyngby Denmark on 8-10 December.   This workshop series is aimed at benchmarking the prediction capabilities of different ship manoeuvring simulation methods including systems and CFD based methods through comparison with results for container ship, tanker and surface combatant hull form test cases.
This year’s workshop  is following up on the workshop held in 2008, which was the outgrowth of discussions and planning conducted by the 24^th and 25^th ITTC manoeuvring Committees. CFD based methods were compared with both PMM/CMT and free-model test data. Comparisons for PMM/CMT and free model tests were blind in the sense that the PMM/CMT and free-model test data was not provided prior to the workshop unless data was required as input to the simulation method.
The workshop was organised by FORCE, MARIN and IIHR with assistance and support from the 27^th ITTC manoeuvring Committee. Participants of the workshop included, BAE Systems, CNR-INSEAN, ECN/CNRS, Force Technology, Hamburg University of Technology, HSVA, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd, Indian Institute of Technology, KAIST, KRISO, MARIN, NMRI, ONR, OSK-Ship Tech, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Technical University of Berlin, University of Genoa, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Southampton, Wiki Ltd and University of Zagreb and Wuhan University of Technology.
University of Southampton submitted a paper entitled ‘Comparison of various approaches to numerical simulation of ship resistance and propulsion’ by Badoe, C., Winden, B., Lidtke, A.K., Phillips, A.B., Hudson, D.A. and Turnock S.R. The full paper can be found at http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/369875/.