Research Article

The Study of Drag Reduction on Ships Inspired by Simplified Shark Skin Imitation

Table 1

Meshing details for each models.

ModelsNumber of nodesNumber of elementsMaximum element quality

RP with biomimetic shark skin27597514479840.99980
RP without biomimetic shark skin16927849220.99984
CS with biomimetic shark skin1712655495360.99978
CS without biomimetic shark skin538622243100.99980