%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Han %A Ma, Ning %A Gu, Xiechong %T Numerical Study of Hydrodynamic Derivatives and Course Stability under Ship-Bank Interaction %J TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation %V 12 %N 4 %P 747-753 %D 2018 %U ./Article_Numerical_Study_of_Hydrodynamic_Liu,48,861.html %X Since ship-bank interaction affects the manoeuvrability of a ship navigating close to a bank, the determination of hydrodynamic derivatives is of great importance to assess the ship manoeuvrability. To obtain the hydrodynamic derivatives of the KVLCC2 model ship with different water depths and ship-bank distances, the simulation of PMM tests are carried out using an unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) based solver. Hybrid dynamic mesh technique is proposed to realize the simulation of pure yaw tests in confined water. Studies on the grid convergence and time-step-size convergence are firstly performed. Hydrodynamic derivatives for the ship in different water depths and ship-bank distances are compared. The course stability is investigated based on time-domain simulations and eigenvalue analysis, and the results show that the ship-bank interaction and shallow water effect have a remarkable influence on the course stability. %@ 2083-6473 %R 10.12716/1001.12.04.14