Abstract
The partial air cushion supported catamaran (PACSCAT) is a type of air cushion assisted catamaran with planing demihulls. Both the air cushion and the demihulls can strongly affect the seakeeping performance. Although there exist some methods for analyzing the seakeeping of other air cushion supported vessels considering the effects of both the air cushion and demihulls, they can take considerable computational time. In this paper, an efficient numerical method is presented, which is formed by combining the 2.5D theory for solving hydrodynamics of demihulls with simplified wave-equation for solving aerodynamics of pressurized air to analysis the seakeeping performance of the high-speed PACSCAT. In the method, the cushion pressure is determined by using adiabatic gas law together with boundary conditions including the craft motion, free surface elevation, fan flows and air leakage. Two models are proposed for air leakage: constant leakage area and varying leakage area linearly related to ship motions and free surface elevation. The results obtained by the newly formulated method are compared with the experimental data, showing that the numerical results have reasonable agreements with experimental ones.
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