Experimental Investigation And Estimation On Wind Forces For a Container Ship

Abstract

Container ships operate with large number of unit containers on the deck, and then they have many kinds of external ship forms due to the position of them depending on need for delivery demands. In the operation of the ships, wind load mostly works as resistance. The estimation of wind effect has important role for calculation of economical cost for operation. There is, however, no simple method to calculate the wind load for those container ships with crested or lacked containers without carrying out wind tunnel experiments. In this paper, ease estimation method for wind load on such kinds of container ships is proposed using experimental investigations.