5. Conclusion

Numerical simulation is becoming increasingly widespread in industry, and is becoming a design aid for many mechanical systems, complementing data and dimensioning rules derived from experimental results or built using analytical models. Calculations carried out using structural dynamics and fluid dynamics codes, sometimes coupled or chained to represent fluid/structure interaction effects, enable us to understand, predict or anticipate certain vibratory phenomena encountered in shipbuilding (vibratory behavior of a ship as a whole, or of a piece of ship equipment, such as a propeller, a hull appendage, a tank, a piping line, etc.); hydrodynamic performance of a ship's hull, or of the hull itself, or of the ship's equipment, such as a propeller, a hull appendage, a tank, a piping line, etc.). hydrodynamic performance of a hull, a thruster, a stabilizing fin, etc.; resistance of a ship and...