NOTUS - a Dutch collaboration in the field of naval ships and aerial drone operations
Conference/JournalMARIN Report 142
Date17 Dec 2024
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been a mainstay technology among the military and navies in particular. However, because drone developments follow each other in rapid succession, MARIN and the Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) have joined forces to develop an aero/hydrodynamic simulation environment on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
In 2020, the Naval Operation of Tactical Unmanned Systems (NOTUS) project started to collaborate on the topic of aerial drone operations near ships. The NOTUS project consortium consists of NLR, MARIN and the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA).
In 2020, the Naval Operation of Tactical Unmanned Systems (NOTUS) project started to collaborate on the topic of aerial drone operations near ships. The NOTUS project consortium consists of NLR, MARIN and the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA).
Contact
Eelco Frickel
Senior Researcher/Teamleader
Serge Toxopeus
Team leader CFD development / Senior Researcher
High-fidelity CFD
The consortium combined high-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software suites with medium-fidelity tools to accomplish the defined project objectives. This approach results in a better understanding of the drone’s air flow and loading in the vicinity of the ship’s superstructure. MARIN’s CFD solver ReFRESCO was successfully coupled with NLR’s CFD solver ENSOLV by means of the OpenPALM coupler.
Bottom view of the LMS motion base