Magazine"The energy transition is the biggest challenge for the passenger vessel sector"
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
Within the passenger market the most important research topics for MARIN are safety, comfort, and fuel/emission reduction. Almost all large cruise ...
passengers and yachtingsafety
Magazine"For yachting issues we join forces to understand the physics and mechanism of the problem"
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
The glossy yachting magazines are full of images and stories about newbuilds of unprecedented shapes and sizes: there have never been so many yachts ...
passengers and yachting
MagazineWiSP 2: Wind-assisted ship propulsion
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of research on wind-assisted ship propulsion. After a very successful first WiSP JIP, the follow-up ...
marine systemswind propulsion
MagazineImproving the safety of passenger ships with the MARIN Ferry
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
In 2018 MARIN participated in the investigation directed by the Sewol Investigation Commission on the sinking of the Korean ferry M/V Sewol. The ...
passengers and yachtingresearch
Magazine"The integration of marine systems at the ship concept stage will be key"
MARIN Report 132
30 Sep 2021
Marine Systems represent a vast family of products and solutions, which are pretty difficult to characterise in just a few words. While a hull or a ...
marine systems
PaperAnd…Action! Setting the Scene for Accurate Visual CFD Comparisons Using Ray Tracing
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
28 Sep 2021
Increased graphical capabilities of contemporary computer hardware make ray tracing possible for a much wider range of applications. In science, and ...
cfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
Magazine"The ever-growing size of vessels is one of themost important developments"
MARIN Report 132
28 Sep 2021
The Infrastructure market covers a wide and diverse range in many ways: from projects studying the capacity of inland waterways and the design and ...
infrastructure
PaperPendulation control for dynamical positioning capable ship; considerations on actuator usage
IFAC-PapersOnLine
22 Sep 2021
Ship-mounted cranes are used in the offshore industry for, among others, placement of wind turbine components. The pendulation of the load can be ...
measurements and controlfuel efficiencyenergy savingdynamic positioning
PaperFlettner rotors performance and interaction effects on the MARIN Hybrid Transition Coaster
RINA International Conference on Wind Propulsion, London, UK
15 Sep 2021
In the context of ship design, including wind propulsion, knowing the aerodynamic performance of a ship and its wind propulsors is essential. In the ...
wind propulsionzero emissionshipsships and structures
PaperValidation of Spectral Fatigue Assessment of a West-Africa FPSO Using Full-Scale Measurements
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
16 Aug 2021
In order to ensure structural integrity and safe operations, fatigue assessment of structural details is a key aspect of design and verification ...
offshoreoffshore engineeringstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringoil and gasrenewable energyoffshore operations
PaperScreening wave conditions for the occurrence of green water events on sailing ships
Ocean Engineering
15 Aug 2021
Design loads for extreme wave events on ships, such as slamming and green water, are hard to define. These events depend on details in the incoming ...
waves & motionsextreme conditionscfd
PaperCable JIP: A Research Project to Assess the Feasibility of a Semi-Static Electrical Subsea Cable for the Power Take-off from a TLP-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), Houston, Texas, USA
9 Aug 2021
The CABLE JIP research project in 2017-2019 was initiated with the aim of studying the feasibility of deploying a novel semi-static electrical cable ...
renewable energyoffshore energy
PaperQualification Criteria for the Verification of Numerical Waves – Part 1: Potential-Based Numerical Wave Tank (PNWT)
40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2021), Online
22 Jun 2021
There is an increasing trend towards using numerical wave simulations for the design of offshore structures, especially for the stochastic ...
offshoreoffshore engineeringwave loadswave measurementscfdcfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperA Joint-Industry Effort to Develop and Verify CFD Modelling Practice for Vortex-Induced Motion of a Deep-Draft Semi-Submersible
40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2021), Online
22 Jun 2021
Platform Vortex Induced Motion (VIM) is an important cause of fatigue damage on risers and mooring lines connected to deep-draft semi-submersible ...
cfdvortex induced motions (vim)offshore
PaperValidation of Mooring Simulations (for Mooring Integrity Assessment) With In-Service Tension Measurements
40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2021), Online
22 Jun 2021
Integrity of mooring system is of high importance in the offshore industry. In-service assessment of loads in the mooring lines is however very ...
mooring and offloadingoffshoreloads