A theoretical investigation of ship ice resistance in waters covered with ice floes

Accurate prediction of ship resistance in ice covered waters is important for ice-going ships. In this paper the resistance of a ship moving in waters covered with small ice floes is investigated. A simplified collision process is applied to model the ship-ice collision process such that the ship resistance can be theoretically determined with hydrodynamic interaction taken into consideration. Thin-ship approximation leads to simple formula predicting that ship resistance coefficient is proportional to squared ship velocity, beam-to-length ratio, ice thickness-to-length ratio and sea ice concentration. These conclusions are in perfect agreement with experimental test results. This in turn confirms the validity of the theory proposed in this paper.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106114
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801818315270
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Zong, Z
  • Zhou, L
• Publication Date: 2019-8-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Serial:
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Volume: 186
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Pergamon
  • ISSN: 0029-8018
  • EISSN: 1873-5258
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00298018

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Hydrodynamics; Ice floes; Mass; Mathematical prediction; Sea ice; Ships; Water transportation crashes
• Subject Areas: Hydraulics and Hydrology; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01715465
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 2019 1:01PM