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You-Sheng Wu, Wei-Cheng Cui and Guo-Jun Zhou (Eds)
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HULL FORM DESIGN OF A PASSENGER CATAMARAN
FOR OPERATION IN THE YELLOW SEA REGION

Seung-Hee Lee, Young-Gill Lee and Jae Wook Lee
Center for Transportation System of Yellow Sea, Inha University,
Incheon, 402-75 1, Korea

ABSTRACT
The Yellow Sea between Korean peninsula and northeast China possesses a strong hinterland
composed of major industrial complexes and cities of the neighboring countries. With recent economic
growths of the countries, trade volume in the Yellow sea region is rapidly increasing and hence
necessitate an introduction of efficient and integrated logistics systems for the region.
Incheon Metropolitan City is a geopolitical center of the Yellow Sea region as well as the sea and air
gateway to the Korean capital area. In the present paper, a passenger catamaran has been planned to meet
economical and natural requirements for operation in the city. Hull forms of the catamaran and their
resistance characteristics in both deep and shallow waters are studied through model experiments and
numerical simulations to determine its practical applicability.

KEYWORDS
Hull form design, High speed, Catamaran, The Yellow Sea, Shallow water, Model test, Numerical
simulation

1 INTRODUCTION

The Yellow Sea region, encompassed with Capital and major cities of Korea as well as the key cities
and industrial complexes in northeast China, possesses a great economic power and a vast population.
The region is expected to emerge soon as a major trade area in the world and it becomes more
important for prosperities of both countries in the new century. Incheon Metropolitan City (hereafter
Incheon) is located at the geopolitical center of the Yellow Sea region and has been served as a
gateway from the sea to the central Korea where almost half of the total population inhabits. The role
of the city becomes more important with recent opening of Incheon international airport (hereafter
ICN) at Young-jong Island aiming a hub port of the Northeastern Asia.
In the present paper, hull forms of a passenger catamaran for operation in the sea routes inside and
vicinities of Incheon have been studied. The routes between ICN - main Incheon, ICN - Kyung-In
Canal - Seoul (Han River) and Duk-Jeok Island - main Incheon, among others, have been selected for