MagazineFive decades of innovation and a great future
MARIN Report 90
1 Feb 2007
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN started the first investigations into passenger vessels around 1950. During the last decades the size of the vessels, the available power and ...
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MagazineAn ocean of knowledge
MARIN Report 90
1 Feb 2007
Reading time 9 minutes
Full-scale investigations have become essential in research and development and increasingly support operations in shipping and the offshore ...
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MagazineMARIN answers increasing demand
MARIN Report 90
1 Feb 2007
Reading time 6 minutes
Due to development in industrial countries and world population growth, the need for high-speed passenger transport and time-sensitive goods has ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringsustainable propulsioncfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsmanoeuvringresistance and propulsioninfrastructurelife at seaseakeepingdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingcomfortmotionsspeed/power performancesimulations
MagazineFull block ships always a challenge
MARIN Report 90
1 Feb 2007
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN has had a long history of working with full block vessels, actually becoming involved in its first full block design way back in 1932. Here, ...
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MagazineWhere do we go from here?
MARIN Report 90
1 Feb 2007
Reading time 6 minutes
Since the beginning of the offshore industry MARIN's research, tool development and Joint Industry Projects, have initiated and followed the trends ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsrenewablesoffshore operationsoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingsimulationsoffshore engineering
PaperOn the power savings by an auxiliary kite propulsion
International Shipbuilding Progress
1 Dec 2006
A performance study of auxiliary wind propulsion for commercial ships by means of a traction kite is presented. It is not focusing on practical ...
sustainable propulsionresistance and propulsionpropulsion
PaperFuel consumption and emission predictions: application to a DP–FPSO concept
Dynamic Positioning Conference 2006, Houston, TX, USA
17 Nov 2006
From 2000 through 2003 a joint industry project (DP-JIP) was carried out, in which the effects of various dynamic positioning control options were ...
cfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at searesearch and developmentsimulationsoffshore engineeringresearch
PaperThe comparison of the hydrodynamic behaviour of three fast patrol boats with special hull geometries
5th International Conference on High Performance Marine Vehicles (HIPER’06), Launceston, Australia
8 Nov 2006
For a group of interested parties, i.e. the Royal Netherlands Navy, Damen Shipyards at Gorinchem (NL), the Royal Schelde Group at Vlissingen (NL) ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringmeasurements and controldata scienceseakeepingdefencemodel testing
PaperExtreme Wave Effects on Deep Water TLPs - Lessons Learned from the Snorre A Model Tests
Deep Offshore Technology (DOT), Houston, Texas, USA
1 Nov 2006
In the last few years there has been an increasing focus within the shipping and offshore industry on extreme wave events and abnormal wave ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingextreme conditionsloads and responsesmooring and offloadingmotionssimulationswaves & motionsoffshore engineering
PaperBow flare slamming of container ships and it's impact on operational reliability
RINA
13 Oct 2006
Because the numerical prediction of bow flare slamming and the related transient hull girder response are still out ofreach, tests with a flexible ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencesafe operations and human factorsseakeepingtransport and shippingmodel testingoperabilityslamming
PaperExtending the benefit of CFD tools in ship design and performance prediction
7th International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD), The Island of Ischia, Italy
4 Oct 2006
The European 6th -framework project VIRTUE aims at advancing the use of CFD in ship design. The paper addresses a central subject in the workpackage ...
sustainable propulsioncfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsresistance and propulsionresearch and developmenthull form optimisationspeed/power performancesimulationsresearch
PaperValidation of slender-body method for prediction of linear manoeuvring coefficients using experiments and viscous-flowcalculations
7th International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD2006), The Island of Ischia, Italy
4 Oct 2006
This paper presents the validation of the prediction of linear manoeuvring coefficients by a state-of-the-art fast-time simulation model by using ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiescfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsdynamic positioningmanoeuvringoil and gasinfrastructuredefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingresearch and developmentsimulationsresearch
PaperCalculation of hydrodynamic manoeuvring coefficients using viscous-flow calculations
7th International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD2006), Ischia, Italy
4 Oct 2006
In the present paper, the work conducted by the author regarding implementation and improvement of efficient calculation of hydrodynamic ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsdynamic positioningmanoeuvringrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructurelife at seadefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingresearch and developmentsimulationsresearch
ThesisSpace-time discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flow
PhD-thesis, Twente University
29 Sep 2006
Flows are common phenomena in our daily live which explains the prominent part fluid dynamics has been playing in the scientific endeavor over the ...
sustainable propulsioncfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsresistance and propulsionresearch and developmentspeed/power performancesimulationsresearch
PaperDesign of Twisted Cavitating Hydrofoil using a Barotropic Flow
6th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV 2006), Wageningen, Netherlands
11 Sep 2006
For the design of a twisted hydrofoil in a cavitation tunnel a computational method for simulating three-dimensional ...
cavitation