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High-Speed Craft Design with CFD: Is it worth it?

Nick Husser
DLBA Naval Architects – Part time Naval Architect

Virginia Tech. – Full time PhD candidate

Nick Husser is currently a part-time Naval Architect with DLBA and full-time PhD candidate at Virginia Tech. Mr. Husser began annual internships with DLBA in 2013, earned a bachelor’s degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Webb Institute in 2018, and joined DLBA full time as a Naval Architect before beginning his PhD studies in 2019. At DLBA, he had the opportunity to learn and apply the foundations of high-speed craft Naval Architecture: stability, structures, and performance with the latter becoming a particular fascination. At Virginia Tech, Mr. Husser’s PhD studies focus on the investigation of the steady state and dynamic performance of stepped planing hulls using CFD simulations. Mr. Husser has published papers on topics including displacement hull seakeeping predictions with varying fidelity simulation methodologies, propeller performance and FSI simulations, validation of stepped hull performance predictions in CFD, nonlinearity in planing hull seakeeping, and application of nonlinear system identification with CFD to model planing hull porpoising and motions in waves. The combination of practical and scientific experience with high-speed craft provides Mr. Husser a unique perspective on the potential practical and economical applications of CFD to the design of a high-speed craft.

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