As a “kind of” mature ship form, planing hull has been widely used in military and civilian areas. Therefore, a reasonable design for planing hull becomes more and more important. For planing hull, resistance and trim are always the most important problems we are concerned with. It affects the planing hull’s economic efficiency and maneuverability very seriously. Instead of the expensive towing tank experiments, the development of computer comprehensive ability allows us to previously apply computational fluid dynamics(CFD)to the ship design. In this paper, the CFD method and Goal Driven Optimization (GDO) were used in the estimations of planing hull resistance and running attitude to provide a possible method for performance computation of planing hull.

• Qi ZHANG(Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Korea)
• Dong-Joon KIM(Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Korea) Corresponding author