MagazineImpact of draught on transport capacity of a pushboat-barge convoy
MARIN Report 128
21 Jan 2020
Voyage analysis as a tool for analysing operational costs of a pushboat-barge convoy in different loading conditions sailing upstream on the River ...
inland shipping
MagazineMARIN research plays key role in new government guidelines for inland waterways in rivers
MARIN Report 128
21 Jan 2020
Rijkswaterstaat is responsible for the design, construction, management and maintenance of the main infrastructure facilities in the Netherlands, ...
inland waterwaysrijkswaterstaatfast-time simulations
MagazineVirtual Ship - smart navigation that saves fuel!
MARIN Report 128
21 Jan 2020
MARIN has developed a prototype, navigational aid system, called Virtual Ship. It advises inland skippers on the optimal track and speed during ...
transport and shippingspeed/power performanceinland shipping
MagazineMARIN and the Dutch government join forces to examine the navigational safety of inland ships in shallow water
MARIN Report 128
21 Jan 2020
MARIN has joined forces with Rijkswaterstaat – the Dutch government’s executive agency in charge of public works and water management in the ...
safetyinland shippingmanoeuvring
MagazineFoiling future and the Wageningen Φ-series JIP proposal
MARIN Report 128
21 Jan 2020
MARIN’s main research objective is to develop new concepts for foiling vessels (possibly combined with a foil integrated electric propulsion ...
propulsionjoint industry project
PaperUsing CFD to determine scale effects on current loads of offshore vessels in side-by-side configuration
Ocean Engineering
1 Jan 2020
The scale effects and the shielding effects on the current loads for typical offshore vessels in side-by-side configuration are investigated using ...
cfdside-by-sidemodel testing
PaperOn the accuracy of partially averaged Navier–Stokes resolution estimates
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
1 Dec 2019
Partially Averaged Navier–Stokes computations can employ three different approaches for specifying the ratio of modelled-to-total turbulence kinetic ...
cfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperInvestigating the Effect of the Closure in Partially-Averaged Navier–Stokes Equations
Journal of Fluids Engineering
1 Dec 2019
The importance of the turbulence closure to the modeling accuracy of the partially-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (PANS) is investigated in ...
cfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperCFD Simulation of Semi-Submersible Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Under Pitch Decay Motion
2nd International Offshore Wind Technical Conference, St.Julians, Malta
3 Nov 2019
The application of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code to simulate the response of a semi-submersible floating wind turbine under pitch decay ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringcfdocean energyrenewablescfd/simulation/desk studiesblue growthfloating wind turbine
PaperA pragmatic method to simulate maneuvering in waves
SNAME Maritime Convention (SMC), Tacoma, Washington, USA
30 Oct 2019
In recent years, the need for a quantification of “maneuvering in waves” has increased due to both requirements for heading and track keeping of ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringtime-domain simulationsmanoeuvringcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperSeakeeping and manoeuvring for wind assisted ships
Wind Propulsion, London, UK
15 Oct 2019
Research on Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) has until now focussed on performance in steady conditions whereas unsteady behaviour is an ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringmodel testing
PaperThe effect of leeway angle on the propeller performance
RINA International Conference on Wind Propulsion, London, UK
15 Oct 2019
One of the aspects influencing the performance of wind assisted vessels is the effect of leeway (drift) angle on the propeller performance. It is ...
cfd/simulation/desk studiesresistance and propulsionpropeller and cavitationmodel testing
PaperCalibration of flush-mounted hydrophones using various signal types
The 6th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (AMT’19)
9 Oct 2019
Measurements of cavitation-induced underwater radiated noise (URN) are carried out on a regular basis in MARIN’s Depressurised Wave Basin (DWB). The ...
calibrationhydrophonesunderwater radiated noisedepressurised wave basin.
PaperNoise measurements of a cavitating propeller in different facilities - Results of the round-robin test programme
The 6th International Conference on Advanced Model Measurement Technology for the Maritime Industry (AMT’19)
9 Oct 2019
Mitigation of shipping noise is a topical issue in marine engineering because of the dramatic increase in the levels of anthropogenic underwater ...
calibrationhydrophonesunderwater radiated noisedepressurised wave basin.
PaperAVT-301 Workshop on hydrodynamic flow around a submarine at straight flight and at incidence
AVT-307 Research Symposium on Separated Flow: Prediction, Measurement and Assessment for Air and Sea Vehicles, Trondheim, Norway
7 Oct 2019
CFD techniques and HPC resources have now advanced to a level that time-dependent simulations of manoeuvring partially- or fully-submerged bodies ...