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Ingrid M
Ansys Employee

Hi,

yes, to account for the viscous effect, you might want to add drag coefficients on the hull. Depending on the shape of your vessel, this could be along the degree of freedom that will be the most affected, such as in yaw, in sway of you have a slender hull, etc.. 

I hope this helps.