Magazinethe Floating Future is near!
MARIN Report 137
31 Oct 2023
Together with a group of partners, we have initiated the Floating Future project to better understand the pros and cons of developing floating ...
floating islandoffshorefloating solarfloating wind
MagazineJoint development to improve the efficiency of offshore wind installation and maintenance
MARIN Report 137
31 Oct 2023
With offshore wind playing a major role in the Dutch green energy transition, MARIN is participating in a joint industry project to improve the ...
offshore operationsoffshoreoffshore wind
MagazineOptimisation of bubble screens for offshore wind installations
MARIN Report 137
31 Oct 2023
As the Bubbles JIP successfully concludes, fresh insight has been gained into the understanding of bubble curtains. But given the complex ...
offshore operationsoffshore engineering
MagazineTwo decades of floating offshore wind knowledge
MARIN Report 137
31 Oct 2023
MARIN has been involved in floating wind turbines right from the start of their development and has seen models triple in size from 5MW to 15MW in ...
floating wind turbineoffshore wind
MagazineFair winds for wind propulsion
MARIN Report 137
31 Oct 2023
Wind propulsion is steadily gaining traction. With many wind propulsion device makers investing in their production process, the growth is predicted ...
wind propulsion
PaperUsing validation metrics to assess RANS turbulence models performance at full scale Reynolds numbers
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2023), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 Oct 2023
One of the major advantages of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the ability to simulate flows at full-scale Reynolds numbers, which for naval ...
verification and validationcfd developmentcfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperCo-Design and Energy Management for Future Vessels
4th International Conference on Modelling and Optimisation of Ship Energy Systems (MOSES), Delft, the Netherlands
26 Oct 2023
The maritime industry is undergoing a significant shift towards more sustainable and efficient forms of transportation. As a result, designing ...
zero emission
PaperScale Model Measurements of Ship Machinery Noise Mitigation by Air Injection
7th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (ATM’23), Istanbul, Turkey
24 Oct 2023
Underwater radiated noise (URN) from shipping is a main contributor to the rising noise levels in the oceans. There is growing evidence that this ...
noise and vibration
PaperMeasuring air bubble layer characteristics around the hull of a ship model
7th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (ATM’23), Istanbul, Turkey
24 Oct 2023
The effect of an air bubble layer around the hull of a ship, a so-called ‘Masker’ system, was evaluated with a new measurement system. The goal of ...
ships and structuresnoise and vibrationcavitation
PaperEvaluating Experimental and Analysis Uncertainty in Resistance Testing
7th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (ATM’23), Istanbul, Turkey
24 Oct 2023
At the AMT’19, an uncertainty model for the evaluation of the combined uncertainty in hydrodynamic model testing was presented [1]. This ...
hydrodynamicsmodel testing
PaperThe Resolved and Unresolved Issues and Phenomena in Numerical Modelling of Air Cavity Closure Using a Scale-Resolving Method
25th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS), Ericeira, Portugal
15 Oct 2023
The current International Maritime Organization (IMO) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) strategy for the shipping industry aims to reach net-zero GHG emissions ...
cfdresistance and propulsionpoweringcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperModelling of Laminar-to-Turbulent Flow Transition on a Marine Propeller Using a RANS Solver
25th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS), Ericeira, Portugal
15 Oct 2023
Traditionally, predicting propeller performance is based on model-scale experiments carried out in towing tanks or cavitation tunnels. These ...
cfdresistance and propulsionpoweringpropeller and cavitationcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperOn the balance between robustness and accuracy in finite-volume codes
25th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS), Ericeira, Portugal
15 Oct 2023
Today, finite-volume codes used in the maritime industry can compute the flow around complicated geometries using unstructured, body-fitted ...
cfdcfd/simulation/desk studiescfd development
PaperSimulation of a wave impact using ReFRESCO pressure-based compressible-incompressible flow solver
25th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS), Ericeira, Portugal
15 Oct 2023
ReFRESCO is a flow solver (Klaij et al., 2018) developed with maritime applications in mind. Therefore, in its original formulation, single and ...
waves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfdcfd/simulation/desk studiescfd development
PaperSteering with wind propulsion
19th International Ship Stability Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey
11 Sep 2023
Although sizeable compared to other energy saving measures, the majority of present installations of wind propulsion now sailing are relatively ...
wind assisted ships waspwind propulsionmanoeuvringzero emissionoperationssafety