Table 1. Relevant studies on ship hull form optimization.

Method	Conducted by authors
Thin-ship strip theory	[4–6]
Slender-ship approximation	[7]
Fourier-Kochin flow method	[8, 9]
Strip theory	[10–13]
Potential-flow panel methods based on Rankine sources	[14–23].
Boundary element method	[24–30]
CFD	[31–52]