Marine hydrodynamics deals with flow around marine vehicles, such as surface ships, submarines, AUVs and ROVs, and offshore structures, both fixed and floating ones. Some of the important topics are marine vehicle resistance and propulsion, controllability, wave loads, wave induced motions, and energy and ecology considerations. Correct understanding and application of hydrodynamics on marine vehicles and structures are vital in their design and operation.

Computational methods in marine hydrodynamic problems are applied to solve a wide range of maritime applications. Significant progress has been made over the recent past towards the development of the 'numerical towing tank' and 'virtual basin or cavitation tunnel'. Research and development work is still ongoing to enhance their stability, accuracy, computational speed and its integration into the overall design process. While the computational hydrodynamics can provide important insights into physical flow characteristics and offers an economic way to investigate a range of design options, it may still lack the accuracy to match results obtained in real-life experiments. This obviously points to the fact that the computational methods do not replace the experiments completely. The development of non-invasive flow measurement and visualization techniques such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) has resulted in better understanding and quantifying the complex hydrodynamic behavior such as wake in ship propeller region, flow around appendages and vortex shedding from risers,

The aim of the conference and the pre-conference workshop is to provide a venue for disseminating recent advances made in computational and experimental marine hydrodynamics and explore outstanding and frontier problems in marine hydrodynamics for further research and applications.

Papers are invited on the following topics:

Resistance, propulsion, sea-keeping, and manoeuvrability,

Cavitation and cavitating flows,

Non-linear forces due to wind, waves and current,

Effect of slamming, sloshing, green water, run-up, and impact loads,

Computational fluid dynamics, numerical modeling and simulation for towing/wave tank

Experiments,

Hull form optimization based on integration of CAD, CAE and CFD,

Fluid-fluid and fluid-structure interactions,

Flow induced noise and vibration,

High speed and energy efficient vessels,

Offshore platforms, pipelines, risers and mooring systems,

Renewable marine energy and ocean resources, and

All other applications in naval architecture and ocean engineering.