Experimental Verifications of a Theoretical Procedure for Propeller-Induced Hull Pressure Calculations

This paper describes the methodologies adopted by the Italian Ship Research Center to predict propeller-induced pressures. An outline of the developed computer program is given, and calculated pressure amplitude results for two ships are compared with the experimental values obtained from full-scale measurements. In particular, calculated pressure results, produced by three different propeller design solutions at several points on the stern of a new-generation single-screw roll-on/roll-off containership, are discussed and compared with the same quantities measured both on a ship model in the Depressurized Towing Tank of the Netherlands Ship Model Basin and on the full-scale ship fitted with the selected propeller.