ABSTRACT

This project is about the analysis of the Computational Fluid Dynamic on a traditional Bedar
boat. Bedar boat is one of the Malay Traditional Boat that use in daily life such as transport and
fishing. This objective in this project are to develop a model CAD model for fiber glass boat by
using Polycad and Rhino software and to simulate movement of the boat through the water by
using ANSYS FLUENT. The three software used for this part of the project were Polycad, Rhino
and Ansys CFX. Polycad was used for the construction of the model boat hull, while Rhino was
used for create the components in the boat and Ansys CFX were used for the simulation part. To
calculate the propulsion power for a ship, the resistance and the total propulsive efficiency have
to be determined with the highest possible accuracy. The resistance of a hull is a consequence of
force between air and water which act against the movement of ship or vessel. The ship
resistance is an important issue for ensuring smooth propulsion. The traditional method to predict
resistance on real hull is by using towing tank model running at corresponding Froude numbers,
or called towing tank experiments. Disadvantages of this method are the associated cost and the
limitation on the availability of physical tanks and models for every single design. The wave
resistance of a ship advancing in still water may be calculated under certain assumptions, which
amount to supposing the forced wave motion to be small so that squares of the fluid velocity may
be neglected; moreover, the ship is supposed to advance with constant velocity in a horizontal
line. It does not appear to have been noticed that we may super pose on the solution so obtained
free surface waves of small amplitude, and that the addition to the resistance may be calculated,
to a similar degree of approximation, as the horizontal resultant of the additional fluid pressures
due to the free surface waves; this additional resistance, which may be negative, depends upon
the position of the ship among the free waves. Various calculations are now made from this point
of view. We consider first transverse following waves moving at the same speed as the ship, and
then a ship moving in the waves left by another ship in advance moving at the same speed;
finally, we examine the more general case of a ship moving through free transverse waves of any
wave-length.