Thescaleeffectleadstolargediscrepanciesbetweenthewakefieldsofmodel-scaleandactualships,andcausesdifferencesincavitationperformanceandexcitingforcestestsinpredictingtheperformanceofactualships.Therefore,whentestdatafromshipmodelsaredirectlyappliedtopredicttheperformanceofactualships,testresultsmustbesubjectedtoempiricalcorrections.Thisstudyproposesamethodforthereversedesignofthehullmodel.Comparedtoageometricallysimilarhullmodel,thewakefieldgeneratedbythemodifiedmodelisclosertothatofanactualship.Anon-geometricallysimilarmodelofaKoreanResearchInstituteofShipandOceanEngineering(KRISO)’scontainership(KCS)wasdesigned.Numericalsimulationswereperformedusingthismodel,anditsresultswerecomparedwithfull-scalecalculationresults.Thedeformationmethodofgettingthewakefieldoffull-scaleshipsbythenon-geometricallysimilarmodelisappliedtotheKCSsuccessfully.
