Lifeboat certification requirements (DNV SE 0059) dictate that operators must demonstrate that each installed lifeboat can be used safely for a ...

MARIN’s CFD Development Team and its partners further advance the renowned viscous flow code.The renowned viscous flow code ReFRESCO, developed by ...

This study entailed the estimation of wind loads performed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations for four typical offshore vessels ...

This paper presents an overview of the sensitivity of free-fall lifeboat simulations during free-fall conditions. Using MARIN's time domain XMF ...

With the increasing size of offshore structures, wind loads are becoming more and more important when designing vessels for operational conditions. ...

In this paper the current status is presented for accurate and fast determination of wind load coefficients using Computational Fluid Dynamics ...

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 ...

When two vessels are in a side-by-side configuration, the vessel in the wake experiences significantly lower wind forces. This phenomenon is known ...

In this paper CFD results are presented for the thrusterhull interaction effects for a drillship with 6 azimuthing thrusters. The results using ...

Wind loads represent an important contribution to the design loads of large floating offshore structures during installation, normal operation and ...