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J. Marine. Sci. Appl. (2014) 13: 377-387 DOI: 10.1007/s11804-014-1278-2 High Resolution Ship Hydrodynamics Simulations in Open Source Environment * Norman Del Puppo Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, Trieste 34100, Italy Abstract: The numerical simulation of wake and free-surface flow hydrodynamic CFD library implemented in OpenFOAM®. around ships is a complex topic that involves multiple tasks: the The OpenFOAM® library is substantially modified to: a) generation of an optimal computational grid and the development upgrade the original turbulence models, b) to add new of numerical algorithms capable to predict the flow field around a high-order interface-capturing methods and c) a new hull. In this paper, a numerical framework is developed aimed at free-surface transient solver based on an iterative implicit high-resolution CFD simulations of turbulent, free-surface flows around ship hulls. The framework consists in the concatenation of solution algorithm. The computational grids are built by “tools”, partly available in the open-source finite volume library using either the OpenFOAM® hexahedral-dominant grid OpenFOAM®. A novel, flexible mesh-generation algorithm is generator snappyHexMesh or the hybrid unstructured grid presented, capable of producing high-quality computational grids generator SolidMesh for double-model simulations, while for free-surface ship hydrodynamics. The numerical frame wor