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Ship maneuvering simulation and prediction in preliminary design stages has been concerned since forty years ago due to accidents occurred to large vessels and so many efforts have been held to develop the methods for simulation of ship maneuvering. Standards concerning ship maneuvering have been presented by International Maritime Organization that is known as a criteria to evaluate maneuvering performance of the ships. Traditionally ship maneuvering has been simulated in deep water and without any environmental conditions such as wind, wave, marine currents and effects resulted by asymmetric flow around ship hull during waterway entrance and shallow waters. Furthermore by introducing the...