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ReFRESCO 2023.1 unveiled
20 Apr 2023
MARIN’s CFD Development Team and its partners further advance the renowned viscous flow code.The renowned viscous flow code ReFRESCO, developed by ...
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CFD Prediction of Wind Loads on FPSO and Shuttle Tankers during Side-by-Side Offloading
12 May 2022
This study entailed the estimation of wind loads performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for four typical offshore vessels ...
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Wind Modelling Sensitivity on Free-fall Lifeboat Simulations
20 Jun 2021
This paper presents an overview of the sensitivity of free-fall lifeboat simulations during free-fall conditions. Using MARIN's time domain XMF ...
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Establishing wind loads using CFD
7 Dec 2020
With the increasing size of offshore structures, wind loads are becoming more and more important when designing vessels for operational conditions. ...
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Current Status of Wind Load Calculations with CFD
10 Jun 2018
In this paper the current status is presented for accurate and fast determination of wind load coefficients using Computational Fluid Dynamics ...
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Predicting wind loads on single vessels and in side by side offloading configuration for FPSO and shuttle tanker using CFD
10 Jun 2018
This paper presents the results of the wind loads on typical offshore vessels at model scale 1:250 obtained with CFD simulations. A FPSO, shuttle ...
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Wind Shielding Estimation of a Vessel in Side by Side Configuration using Disturbed Velocity Field from CFD
14 Feb 2018
When two vessels are in a side-by-side configuration, the vessel in the wake experiences significantly lower wind forces. This phenomenon is known ...
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Determining Thruster-Hull Interaction for a Drill-Ship Using CFD
25 Jun 2017
In this paper CFD results are presented for the thrusterhull interaction effects for a drillship with 6 azimuthing thrusters. The results using ...
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CFD benchmark study from the Wind Load Joint Industry Project
1 May 2017
Wind loads represent an important contribution to the design loads of large floating offshore structures during installation, normal operation and ...
