A Detailed Assessment of Numerical Flow Analysis (NFA) to Predict the   Hydrodynamics of a Deep-V Planing Hull
  Over the past few years much progress has been made in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in its ability to accurately simulate the hydrodynamics associated with a deep-V monohull planing craft. This work has focused on not only predicting the hydrodynamic forces and moments, but also the complex multiphase free-surface flow field generated by a deep-V monohull planing boat at high Froude numbers. One of these state of the art CFD codes is Numerical Flow Analysis (NFA). NFA provides turnkey capabilities to model breaking waves around a ship, including both plunging and spilling breaking waves, the formation of spray, and the entrainment of air. NFA uses a Cartesian-grid formulation with immersed body and volume-of-fluid methods. 
Thomas C. Fu and Thomas T. O'Shea and Carolyn Q. Judge and Douglas G.   Dommermuth and Kyle A. Brucker and Donald C. Wyatt
physics.flu-dyn