“…Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to systematically examine where linear and weakly nonlinear hydrodynamic methods fit within the range of taxonomy of fluid structure interaction methods and to assess the influence of nonlinearity on the ship motions and wave loads of a typical 10,000 TEU modern container ship. Different numerical methods ''namely'' (a) three-dimensional linear frequency domain hydrodynamic -3D LINEAR (Inglis and Price, 1981), (b) two dimensional linear hydroelastic -2D HYEL, (Bishop and Price, 1979), (c) two-dimensional large amplitude hydrodynamic -2D LAMP (Mortola et al, 2011a,b), and (d) three-dimensional body nonlinear hydrodynamic -3D PNL (Bailey et al, 2002a andBallard et al, 2003) are assessed and compared against available experimental results from the WILS II joint industry project (Hong et al, 2010 andLee et al, 2012). This paper focuses on assessing the accuracy of numerical results when using methods with increasing sophistication in approximating nonlinear effects and their importance in predicting motions and loads.…”