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Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability

Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability is a research topic within Ocean Engineering. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the comprehensive analysis, verification, and validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for ship hydrodynamics. It covers topics such as ship maneuvering, hydrodynamic optimization, added resistance, numerical uncertainty estimation, propeller performance, wave interactions, maneuvering coefficients, and ship motion prediction. The papers also delve into the hydroelastic effects of ships in various sea conditions.

  • CFD Simulations
  • Ship Maneuvering
  • Hydrodynamic Optimization
  • Added Resistance
  • Numerical Uncertainty
  • Propeller Performance
  • Wave Interactions
  • Maneuvering Coefficients
  • Ship Motion Prediction
  • Hydroelastic Effects
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability

Which countries lead Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 202 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 202 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 181 works
  4. 4 South Korea 138 works
  5. 5 Japan 111 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 110 works
  7. 7 Italy 103 works
  8. 8 India 98 works
  9. 9 Norway 80 works
  10. 10 Germany 74 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 56.7%United States: 8.0%Indonesia: 7.1%South Korea: 5.4%6 others listed: 22.7%57%largest
China1,440 · 56.7%United States202 · 8.0%Indonesia181 · 7.1%South Korea138 · 5.4%6 others listed577 · 22.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Engineering University publishes the most Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research, followed by Wuhan University of Technology and Dalian Maritime University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 100 works
  2. 2 Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 100 works
  3. 3 Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 93 works
  4. 4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 71 works
  5. 5 Wuhan Ship Development & Design InstituteChina 50 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 46 works
  7. 7 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 44 works
  8. 8 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 42 works
  9. 9 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 40 works
  10. 10 Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability include Frede Blaabjerg, Seyedali Mirjalili and Josep Maria Guerrero.

  1. 1 Frede Blaabjerg Denmark 203k citations
  2. 2 Seyedali Mirjalili Australia 154k citations
  3. 3 Josep Maria Guerrero Denmark 123k citations
  4. 4 Hao Chen China 118k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability?

The most cited paper in Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability is "Moth-flame optimization algorithm: A novel nature-inspired heuristic paradigm" (Seyedali Mirjalili, 2015), with 4,658 citations. Next come "Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter" (2,606) and "Comprehensive Approach to Verification and Validation of CFD Simulations—Part 1: Methodology and Procedures" (937).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Moth-flame optimization algorithm: A novel nature-inspired heuristic paradigm Seyedali Mirjalili · Knowledge-Based Systems 18 Jul 2015 4,658
2 Measurement of the Roughness of the Sea Surface from Photographs of the Sun’s Glitter Charles L. Cox, Walter Heinrich Munk · Journal of the Optical Society of America Nov 1954 2,606
3 Comprehensive Approach to Verification and Validation of CFD Simulations—Part 1: Methodology and Procedures Fred Stern, Robert Vance Wilson, Hugh W. Coleman et al. · Journal of Fluids Engineering 10 Jul 2001 937
4 Beluga whale optimization: A novel nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm Changting Zhong, Gang Li, Zeng Meng · Knowledge-Based Systems 9 Jun 2022 903
5 The statistical distribution of the maxima of a random function David Edgar Cartwright, Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 9 Oct 1956 868
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Where is Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research done?

The largest centres of Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research in 2022-now are Wuhan (China), Shanghai (China), Dalian (China) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Trondheim.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WuhanChina 227 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 203 works
  3. 3 DalianChina 144 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 136 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 131 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 57 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 56 works
  8. 8 TrondheimNorway 51 works
  9. 9 QingdaoChina 49 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TrondheimNO · 50.8 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability?

Among universities, judged by research, Aalto University, University of Lisbon and Dalian Maritime University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 16.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Aalto UniversityUniversity of LisbonDalian Maritime Univ…Norwegian University…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Aalto UniversityFinland 74.728.9%13.5×12 +72.0%
2University of LisbonPortugal 73.623.2%10.0×23 -7.0%
3Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 73.017.5%86.7×93 +80.4%
4Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 71.511.9%24.7×42 +38.2%
5Wuhan University of TechnologyChina 69.113.2%42.5×100 +55.3%
6Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 61.912.7%66.1×100 -1.1%
7Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 61.614.5%22.3×16 +21.7%
8Dalian University of TechnologyChina 61.016.9%15.7×44 +59.4%
9University of StrathclydeUnited Kingdom 60.917.2%36.2×28 -14.6%
10Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60.712.9%8.3×70 +4.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability, country by country

Is Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuverability10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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