TY - EJOU AU - Savino, R. AU - Visone, M . AU - Rossetto, D. AU - D'Oriano, V. TI - Fluid dynamic analysis of different Yacht configurations with VOF method T2 - Fluid Dynamics \& Materials Processing PY - 2015 VL - 11 IS - 4 SN - 1555-2578 AB - This paper presents two applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to super and mega yacht design, based on the Volume of Fluid method. After an overview of recent literature on the subject, the analysis of the hydrodynamic performances of different hull configurations and of different appendage configurations is presented. KW - Computational fluid dynamics KW - yacht design KW - free surface flows DO - 10.3970/fdmp.2015.011.331