PaperOn the importance of service conditions and safety in ship design
13th International Marine Design Conference (IMDC 2018), Helsinki, Finland
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 state of ...
PaperDesign, analysis and verification of a volume-of-fluid model with interface-capturing scheme
Computers & Fluids
15 May 2018
The Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) model with interface-capturing scheme, available in many commercial and open-source CFD packages, may be widely used for ...
cfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperImproving an Already Optimized Ship by Making its Stern Asymmetric
17th Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries (COMPIT’18), Pavone, Italy
14 May 2018
A container ship with a large area propeller is optimized for minimal power and maximum quality of the inflow to the propeller. Both object ...
propeller
PaperCombining the Augmented Lagrangian Preconditioner with the Simple Schur Complement Approximation
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
10 May 2018
The augmented Lagrangian (AL) preconditioner and its variants have been successfully applied to solve saddle point systems arising from the ...
cfd
PaperExperimental validation of fluid–structure interaction computations of flexible composite propellers in open water conditions using BEM-FEM and rans-fem methods
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
7 May 2018
In the past several decades, many papers have been published on fluid–structure coupled calculations to analyse the hydro-elastic response of ...
measurements and controlpropeller
PaperA semi-empirical prediction method for broadband hull-pressure fluctuations and underwater radiated noise by propeller tip vortex cavitation
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
2 May 2018
A semi-empirical method is presented that predicts broadband hull-pressure fluctuations and underwater radiated noise due to propeller tip vortex ...
cfd/simulation/desk studiesnoise and vibrationresistance and propulsionpropeller and cavitationpropeller
PaperPrediction of the Open-Water Performance of Ducted Propellers with a Panel Method
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
19 Mar 2018
In the present work, a comparison between the results obtained by a panel code with a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) code is made to obtain ...
propellerpropeller and cavitation
PaperWind Shielding Estimation of a Vessel in Side by Side Configuration using Disturbed Velocity Field from CFD
SNAME 23rd Offshore Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA
14 Feb 2018
When two vessels are in a side-by-side configuration, the vessel in the wake experiences significantly lower wind forces. This phenomenon is known ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfdmanoeuvringoffshore operationsoil and gascfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperApplication of potential flow methods to fast displacement ships at transcritical speeds in shallow water
Applied Ocean Research
1 Feb 2018
Computer codes implementing three different numerical methods for the prediction of ship squat at transcritical speeds in shallow open-water are ...
resistance and propulsionresearch and developmentresearch
PaperExperimental study of the column shape and the roughness effects on the vortex-induced motions of deep-draft semi-submersible platforms
Ocean Engineering
1 Feb 2018
Experiments regarding the VIM of SS platforms with four columns were carried out to investigate the effects of the surface roughness and the column ...
cfd/simulation/desk studiesoffshore operationsoil and gaslife at seaoffshore wind
PaperSimulation of the flow around a circular cylinder at Re=3900 with Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
1 Nov 2017
This study employs Partially-Averaged Navier-Stokes (PANS) equations to simulate the flow around a smooth circular cylinder at Reynolds number 3900. ...
PaperExploratory measurements of cavitation nuclei in the wake of a ship model
The 5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurements Technology for The Maritime Industry (AMT ’17), Glasgow, UK
18 Oct 2017
Cavitation is an important phenomenon influencing the performance of ship propellers and rudders. It is well known that if substantial cavitation ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiessustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata sciencenoise and vibrationresistance and propulsionmarine systemsdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingcavitationpropellerpropulsor
PaperRandom uncertainty of variance of finite length measurement signals
The 5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (AMT’17), Glasgow, UK
18 Oct 2017
When considering stationary measurements, the finite length of any practical measurement imposes a random uncertainty component to statistical ...
cfd developmentcfdcfd/simulation/desk studiesgeometry and cfd
PaperAdvanced measurements of rim-driven tunnel thrusters -The Wageningen TT-series JIP
5th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurements Technology for the Maritime Industry (AMT’17), Glasgow, UK
11 Oct 2017
For the Wageningen TT-series JIP a rim-driven tunnel thruster test set-up was used to evaluate the cavitation dynamics, underwater radiated noise ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiessustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata sciencenoise and vibrationresistance and propulsionmarine systemsdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingcavitationpropellerpropulsor
PaperRound Robin test on the underwater radiated noise of a cavitating ship propeller in open water
The 5th international conference on advanced model measurements technology (AMT’17), Glasgow, Scotland, UK
11 Oct 2017
Due to concerns about its effect on marine life, shipping noise is receiving increasing attention within the maritime industry. The primary noise ...
sustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata sciencenoise and vibrationresistance and propulsionmarine systemspoweringdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingshipscavitationpropellerpropulsor