Magazine"The main challenge is to further decrease electricity costs while increasing total capacity"
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
MARIN believes it is our responsibility to contribute to the development of offshore renewable energy from waves, tides and wind. Back in 2010, we ...
renewablesoffshoreoffshore energy
MagazineWind-powered shipping increasingly popular
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
The uptake of wind propulsion as a solution to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is accelerating. Compared to future alternative ...
transport and shippingoffshore wind
MagazineBeaching tests for amphibious landing craft
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
Sailing through the surf zone near a beach during an amphibious landing can be a dangerous operation, particularly because sailing with a landing ...
defence
MagazinePassive fishing pilot project at Borssele offshore wind farm
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
In the next few years, a substantial increase in the number of wind parks in the North Sea is envisaged as many countries try to achieve the Paris ...
offshoreoffshore operationsfish farmwind farms
MagazineOptimisation for an operational profile
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
A very interesting change we have seen in the past few years is a growth in the number of optimisation projects we perform to match operational ...
transport and shipping
Magazine"The integration of marine systems at the ship concept stage will be key"
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
Marine Systems represent a vast family of products and solutions, which are pretty difficult to characterise in just a few words. While a hull or a ...
marine systems
PaperAnd…Action! Setting the Scene for Accurate Visual CFD Comparisons Using Ray Tracing
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
28 Sep 2021
Increased graphical capabilities of contemporary computer hardware make ray tracing possible for a much wider range of applications. In science, and ...
cfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
Magazine"The ever-growing size of vessels is one of themost important developments"
MARIN Report 132
28 Sep 2021
The Infrastructure market covers a wide and diverse range in many ways: from projects studying the capacity of inland waterways and the design and ...
infrastructure
PaperPendulation control for dynamical positioning capable ship; considerations on actuator usage
IFAC-PapersOnLine
22 Sep 2021
Ship-mounted cranes are used in the offshore industry for, among others, placement of wind turbine components. The pendulation of the load can be ...
measurements and controlfuel efficiencyenergy savingdynamic positioning
PaperScreening wave conditions for the occurrence of green water events on sailing ships
Ocean Engineering
15 Aug 2021
Design loads for extreme wave events on ships, such as slamming and green water, are hard to define. These events depend on details in the incoming ...
waves & motionsextreme conditionscfd
PaperCable JIP: A Research Project to Assess the Feasibility of a Semi-Static Electrical Subsea Cable for the Power Take-off from a TLP-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
9 Aug 2021
The CABLE JIP research project in 2017-2019 was initiated with the aim of studying the feasibility of deploying a novel semi-static electrical cable ...
renewable energyoffshore energy
PaperCFD Simulations of Near and Far Wakes of Two Turbines in a Tandem Configuration
31st International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), Rhodes, Greece
20 Jun 2021
The offshore wind energy market is growing rapidly globally. To be more competitive in the energy market, the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of ...
wind farmsoffshore windfloating wind turbinecfdcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesoffshore energy
PaperWind Modelling Sensitivity on Free-fall Lifeboat Simulations
The 31st International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE), Rhodes, Greece
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 ...
waves, impacts and hydrostructuraltime-domain simulationsoffshore operationscfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperAssessment of the Manoeuvrability Characteristics of a Twin Shaft Naval Vessel Using an Open-Source CFD Code
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
16 Jun 2021
The purpose of this study is to assess the quality of the manoeuvre prediction of a twinshaft naval vessel by means of a time-domain simulator based ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiescfdmanoeuvringcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperOn the Contribution of Roughness Effects to the Scaling of Ship Resistance
Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering (Marine 2021)
2 Jun 2021
Roughness effects are one of the main challenges of the prediction of ship resistance using traditional model tests and extrapolation procedures. ...
resistance and propulsioncfd developmentcfdpoweringcfd/simulation/desk studies