Hull Form Design of a Passenger Catamaran for Operation in the Yellow Sea Region

초록

The Yellow Sea between Korean peninsula and northeast China possesses a strong hinterland composed of major industrial complexes and cities of the neighboring countries. With recent economic groths of the countries, trade volume in the Yellow sea region is rapidly increasing and hence necessitate an introduction of efficient and integrated logistics systems for the region. Incheon Metropolitan City is a geopolitical center of the Yellow Sea region as well as the sea and air gateway to the Korean capital area. In the present paper, a passenger catamaran has been planned to meet economical and natural requirements for operation in the city. Hull forms of the catamaran and their resistance characteristics in both deep and shallow waters are studied through model experiments and numerical simulations to determine its practical applicability.