Numerical Method to Simulate Self-Propulsion of Aframax Tanker in Irregular Waves

Table 7

Comparison of thrust and torque versus different methods.

	Experimental data	Sliding method	Overset method
Thrust (N)	40.52	31.02	37.16
Diff. (%)	—	23.45	8.29
Torque (nm)	1.008	0.879	1.009
Diff. (%)	—	12.80	0.10