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A method for early-stage design current loads determination on drill-ships
1 Nov 2023
The increasing demand for offshore operations in deep water implies the necessity to predict station-keeping ability of offshore vessels since the ...
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Bow thruster analysis by CFD calculations
31 Oct 2023
MARIN invests much time and effort in improving simulation methods for manoeuvrability predictions. Ensuring that ships can operate safely in ...
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The heel influence on ship manoeuvrability: Single and twin-screw surface vessels
15 Dec 2022
Low transverse metacentric height and high speed are peculiar destabilising factors in ship manoeuvrability according to the attainable large ...
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Manoeuvring experiments, mathematical model and sensitivity analysis for test-case ferry
24 May 2022
This paper presents an overview of an experimental and numerical campaign for a test-case ferry. The study consisted in captive model tests, free ...
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Improving the safety of passenger ships with the MARIN Ferry
30 Sep 2021
In 2018 MARIN participated in the investigation directed by the Sewol Investigation Commission on the sinking of theKorean ferry M/V Sewol. The ship ...
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Reliability analysis of crabbing manoeuvre
16 Dec 2020
In this study reliability analysis methods are applied to the crabbing manoeuvre of a ship. The objective is to express the crabbing capability of a ...
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Heel angles in turn and passenger safety
4 Mar 2020
The present paper addresses the issue of heel angles in turn, focusing on experimental results, existing regulations and passenger safety. ...
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Sewol ferry capsizing and flooding
4 Mar 2020
The capsizing and sinking of Sewol close to the South Korean coast in fair weather on April 16, 2014 caused the death of 304 people. In December ...
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Estimating Berthing Performance of Twin Shaft Ship by means of CFD
22 Sep 2019
Estimating ship low-speed manoeuvrability is a crucial and challeng-ing task especially in early design sign stage. It is essential in case of ...
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Influence of Skeg on Ship Manoeuvrability at High and Low Speeds
22 Sep 2019
This paper presents the results of manoeuvring model tests and CFD calculations for a twin-screw ferry with different skeg lengths. The impact of ...
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Uncertainty analysis of free running manoeuvring model test on a modern ferry, with emphasis on heel angles
9 Jun 2019
This paper presents an uncertainty study on the manoeuvring behaviour of a twin screw ferry. In particular, we are interested in heel angles that ...
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Quantifying the Uncertainty of the Crabbing Capability
17 Jun 2018
Crabbing is a critical manoeuvre that requires all of the ship’s propulsors to counteract environmental forces. It is acomplex hydrodynamic scenario ...
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On the importance of service conditions and safety in ship design
10 Jun 2018
A good ship design is a balanced design, in which the performance is not limited (or outperformed) by one specific characteristic. Today’s ...
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Preliminary considerations on a unified model for hydrodynamic forces
4 Jul 2016
Choosing the correct formulation for setting the manoeuvring kinematic and dynamic quantities into non-dimensional form becomes critical when low ...
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A benchmark program for comparing hydrodynamic forces obtained from simulations and captive tests
15 Oct 2014
The purpose of this paper is to present a benchmark program for comparing hydrodynamic coefficients calculated by manoeuvring prediction software ...