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Shallow water speed / power trials with cruise liner for benchmarking

MASHCON2025, Bruges, Belgium

18 May 2025

Within the frame of the Joint Industry Project JoRes, multiple full scale measurements were carried out to quantify the resistance and propulsion ...
resistance and propulsiontrialsspeed trials
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ITTC report of Specialist for Validation of Waterjet Test Procedures

24th International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), Edinburg, Scotland, UK

1 Jan 2005

The objective of the Specialist Committee on Validation of Waterjet Test Procedures is to provide proven procedures for the determination of the ...
sustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata scienceresistance and propulsionmarine systemspoweringdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingcavitationpropulsion
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Assessment of the minimum speed requirement in safe return to port

Design & Operation of Passenger Ships 2019, London, UK

1 May 2019

The present paper discusses the aspects of how to assess the compliance of cruise ships and RoPax ferries with the requirement for Safe Return to ...
cruise and ferrypropulsion
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Manoeuvring assessment in concept ship design

International Conference on Ship and Shipping Research (NAV 2003), Palermo, Italy

2 Jun 2003

The art of ship design is to find the best design compromise suitable for the ship's task and its operations, taking the performance, initial costs ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiescfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencesafe operations and human factorstime-domain simulationsmanoeuvringnautical operationsinfrastructureauthorities and regulatorsdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingperformance based assessmentsimulations
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Trimaran Hull Form Development for America's Marine Highways EXPRESS SERVICE Trailership

11th International Conference on Fast Sea Transportation (FAST 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

30 Sep 2011

The paper describes the results of the hull form design of an innovative High Speed Trimaran Trailership (HSTT) as part of the fleet of ...
sustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata scienceresistance and propulsionpoweringdefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testingpropulsion
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Important Environmental Modelling Aspects for Ultra Deep Water Model Tests

Deep Offshore Technology Conference (DOT), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

1 Oct 2001

Model testing for ultra deep water projects requires special attention to the modelling of waterdepth, wind, waves and current. Due to the large ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingextreme conditionsmotionswaves & motionsoffshore engineering
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Causes of Yacht Capsizing in Heavy seas

Workshop on Safety of Ocean Racing Yachts, Sydney, Australia

28 Mar 1999

This paper presents an overview of capsize modes that are relevant to intact ships and sailing yachts subjected to waves and wind. For larger size ...
passengers and yachting
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Rotor Tugnology

The 16th International Tug & Salvage convention (ITS2000)

1 May 2000

A major development in the last few years was the development of the Rotor Tug. This revolutionary concept can be characterised as an enhanced ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencemanoeuvringinfrastructuredefencepassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingmodel testing
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Energy Saving by Using Asymmetric Aftbodies for Merchant Ships – Design Methodology, Numerical Simulation and Validation

The Second Conference of Global Chinese Scholars on Hydrodynamics (CCSH’2016), Wuxi, China

11 Nov 2016

The methodology and procedures are discussed on designing merchant ships to achieve fully-integrated and optimized hull-propulsion systems by using ...
sustainable propulsionmeasurements and controldata scienceresistance and propulsionmodel testingmonitoringtrials and monitoringtrials
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Full Scale Monitoring Marco Polo Tension Leg Platform

26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2007), San Diego, California, USA

10 Jun 2007

Installed 160 miles South of New Orleans in 1300 m of water, the Marco Polo Tension Leg Platform is subjected to an extensive monitoring campaign to ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamonitoringtrials and monitoringfatigueloads and responsesfull scalewaves & motions
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Wave Run Up as Important Hydrodynamic Issue for Gravity Based Structures

23rd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2004), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1 Jun 2004

Gravity Based Structures (GBS) are now seriously considered as LNG import terminal. When the environment of wind and waves is strongly directional, ...
waves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingresearch and developmentoffshore engineeringresearch
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Design for Service - Effects of Loading Conditions on Powering Performances

Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures (PRADS’13), Changwon City, Korea

25 Oct 2013

This paper discusses the results of a study to numerically determine the speed-power curve of a ship for several loading conditions. Therefore the ...
sustainable propulsioncfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesresistance and propulsionpoweringpropulsiondesign for service
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Errors and uncertainties in CFD validation for non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layer flows at high Reynolds numbers

Journal of Turbulence

30 May 2024

NATO AVT-RTG-349 was dedicated to the validation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) ...
cfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
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Quantifying the Uncertainty of the Crabbing Capability

37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2018), Madrid, Spain

17 Jun 2018

Crabbing is a critical manoeuvre that requires all of the ship’s propulsors to counteract environmental forces. It is a complex hydrodynamic ...
time-domain simulationsmanoeuvringnautical operationscfd/simulation/desk studies
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Choosing the safest wave

The Naval Architect

1 Oct 2017

Sanne van Essen, MARIN, and Herman Peters, Rijkswaterstaat, Netherlands investigate the wind and wave design conditions to study the minimum power ...
wave measurementswaves, impacts and hydrostructuralseakeepingwaves & motionssafetyadded resistance