KVLCC2

KVLCC2 is a benchmark hull representing a modern very large crude carrier, the second variant of the KRISO VLCC geometry, built by the Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering for CFD validation. It is a full-form single-screw tanker, about 320 m between perpendiculars with a block coefficient near 0.81 and a low design Froude number near 0.14, so its flow is dominated by the thick stern boundary layer and the bilge-vortex wake rather than by wave-making. Tank data for resistance, the nominal wake, and maneuvering are public, making KVLCC2 a standard case for validating viscous-flow solvers and PMM maneuvering predictions at the Gothenburg and Tokyo CFD workshops and the SIMMAN maneuvering workshops.