MagazineComFLOW used for green water assessment Ningaloo Vision FPSO
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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MARIN has been awarded a contract by Prosafe Production Services Pte Ltd to perform a numerical study for the green water assessment of the Ningaloo ...
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MagazineModel making to the tune of 150 a year
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Last year, MARIN built model number 8888 and propeller model 7000. Readers may well wonder just how MARIN produces an average of 120 ship models and ...
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MagazineOWME project makes technological breakthrough
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Ship motions are often critical for offshore operation. Rather than 'waiting on weather', a new system is now available that predicts quiescent ...
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MagazineMARIN tests Fall Pipe Ship design for Boskalis
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Fall Pipe Ships combine the robustness of a working vessel with the precision of a surgeon as they drop rocks on exactly the right place. This ...
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MagazineTombua Landana transports undergo fatigue assessment
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) contracted MARIN to monitor the barge motions during two Tombua Landana transports with Compliant Tower sections ...
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MagazineThe state of Current Affairs
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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In the 'Current Affairs' Joint Industry Project (JIP), model tests, semi-empirical tool predictions and CFD computations are employed to estimate ...
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MagazineDP simulations and model testing - on the spot!
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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MARIN has a long history in Dynamic Positioning (DP) model testing and computer simulations. In recent years there has been increasing interest in ...
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MagazineFull-scale sloshing tests underway at MARIN
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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MARIN is carrying out full-scale sloshing tests for the validation of sloshing assessment tools on behalf of the Sloshel project group. Report ...
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MagazineThe flight of the condor
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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A Condor computer cluster is increasingly frequently being used to help analyse downtime events in the LNG sector. Report explains this new method.
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MagazineDynamic Positioning under the spotlight
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Over the past years, MARIN's activities with multi-body hydrodynamics and in particular, multi-body Dynamic ositioning (DP) have increased ...
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MagazineNew code FreSCo reveals what goes under the surface
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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FreSCo is a new unsteady, multi-phase, viscous flow CFD code being developed by MARIN's R&D department. FreSCo's most recent findings are presented ...
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MagazineMultiple scales give maximum insight
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
Reading time 6 minutes
In the process of evaluating an offshore structure during its design or while in operation, model tests, simulations and offshore (full-scale) ...
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Magazine2009 - The year of LNG
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has become the fastest growing sector of the world's gas market. With many large LNG
offloading projects planned this ...
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MagazineMARIN and Oceânica work in tandem on project
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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MARIN and Oce‰nica recently joined forces to study the tandem offloading operation of the first FPSO in the Gulf of Mexico for the Petrobras ...
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MagazinePieter Schelte - a multi purpose model test project
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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MARIN has carried out extensive model tests on the multi-purpose offshore operations vessel, Pieter Schelte. Report provides an update.
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