Luigi Francesco Minerva
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Publications
Magazine
Advancing knowledge of foiling vessels
27 Jun 2023
The Foil Design JIP is a research project focused on enhancing hydrodynamic knowledge for the early design phase of foiling vessels. It specifically ...
Paper
Design for operation
14 Nov 2022
As the industry has a need for more efficient and fuel-flexible solutions, there is a growing desire to shift away from specification (contractual) ...
Paper
Fixed and Control Motion Response of a Surface-Piercing Hydrofoil in Multiphase Flow and in Waves
26 Jun 2022
The objective of this work is to investigate the hydrodynamic and hydroelastic response of a surface-piercing hydrofoil at fixed attitudes and ...
Paper
Experimental investigations on conventional and unconventional boost systems to assist take-off of hydrofoil crafts
11 Mar 2021
In 2020, a dedicated research regarding the take-off was granted. The objective was to investigate experimentally unconventional solutions to ...
Paper
Experimental methods for investigation of foiling crafts
16 Nov 2020
An overview of the most recent experimental and numerical methods performed in the past years at MARIN is presented with respect to the applications ...
Magazine
Foiling future and the Wageningen Φ-series JIP proposal
21 Jan 2020
MARIN’s main research objective is to develop new concepts for foiling vessels (possibly combined with a foil integrated electric propulsion ...
Magazine
Prediction methods for sailing yachts in the early design phase
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
Recent sailing yacht projects have highlighted the importance of getting involved in the design process as early as possible. And given the ...
Paper
Ventilation of Lifting Bodies: Review of the Physics and Discussion of Scaling Effects
12 Jan 2017
Ventilation is relevant to the performance, safety, and controllability of marine vessels, propulsors, and control surfaces that operate at or near ...
Magazine
Complex hull shapes need sophisticated assessment
21 Aug 2015
Reading time 6 minutes
Leading dredging company Van Oord asked MARIN to perform a full assessment of the hull lines of its new hopper dredger.
Research report
Analysing numerical flow computations for practical ship hull form design
2 Nov 2014
This invited lecture stressed the importance of analysis of the computed flow and wave pattern around a ship hull, aiming at understanding the ...
Paper
The nature of nonlinear effects in ship wave making
1 Feb 1997
This paper reconsiders the validity of linearised wave resistance theories and studies "nonlinear effects", which we here define as those effects ...