Dear Colleagues,

Ship design is a complex process, since it requires the successful combination of various disciplines. Among them, hydrodynamics analysis (HA) plays a key role for the successful completion of the design phase (DP). Several key performance indicators for ships, such as resistance, propulsion, seakeeping and manoeuvrability, are tightly connected with the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of the HA tools that a design team has the capacity and expertise to employ. Fortunately, the current availability of computing power has pushed toward the employment of sophisticated computational fluid dynamic solvers that offer significant aid to meet the demanding requirements of contemporary computer-aided ship design. The proposed Special Issue aims to provide the interested reader and practitioner with an up-to-date review of the established and emerging HA methodologies and tools along with practical illustrations of their application in the fields of marine and ocean engineering. Specific topics include the following:

• New methodologies in the analysis of resistance, propulsion, seakeeping and manoeuvrability of ships;
• Ship–waves interaction;
• Minimising hull resistance;
• Increasing propulsion efficiency;
• Modern methodologies of computational fluid dynamics for the estimation of ship performance;
• Propulsion improving devices;
• Hydrodynamic optimisation of ship hull under design constraints;
• Novel CAD representations of the vessel’s geometry;
• High accuracy and locally refinable meshing tools;
• Machine learning techniques for improving the performance of low-fidelity models.

Prof. Dr. Panagiotis D. KAKLIS
Prof. Dr. C.G. Politis
Guest Editors

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• ship resistance
• seakeeping
• manoeuvrability
• propulsion
• ship-hull optimisation
• CAD representation of ship hull
• CFD
• meshing tools
• machine learning techniques