MagazineHighly efficient Tension Leg Platform design, testing and analysis
MARIN Report 114
30 Apr 2015
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN tested HessÕ Stampede Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Offshore Basin in waves, wind and current in 2014. A thorough, 30-day test programme ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralrenewablesoil and gaslife at sea
MagazineOWASE II - capturing waves
MARIN Report 73
1 Apr 2001
Reading time 3 minutes
Wind,waves and currents: the environment that ships and offshore structures have to stand up against. Having
accurate information on the actual ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralmarine systemsmonitoringtrials and monitoringonboard advisoryfull scalewaves & motions
PaperEnergy 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
PaperFull 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
PaperDesign 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
PaperWave 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
MagazineStorms at the click of a switch
MARIN Report 70
1 Jun 2000
Reading time 3 minutes
Model tests have invariably tried to simulate the forces of nature, of wind, wave and currents - the rule-ofthumb
being the more reliable the ...
measurements and controldata sciencerenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seamodel testingoffshore engineering
MagazineWINDLOAD sets the foundations for new WINDLASS JIP
MARIN Report 130
7 Dec 2020
Here we look back at the success of WINDLOAD, the predecessor of WINDLASS. The remark “one man's ‘stiff breeze’ might be another's ‘soft breeze’” ...
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PaperErrors 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
PaperQuantifying 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
PaperChoosing 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
PaperDesign for service
IMTA Conference
1 Jan 2003
A more complete understanding of ship behaviour in waves, together with the presently available detail in wind-wave climatology on shipping routes ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesstability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringsafe operations and human factorsseakeepingpassengers and yachtingtransport and shippingoperability
PaperNumerical simulation of propeller-hull interaction and determination of the effective wake field using a hybrid RANS-BEM approach
Third International Symposium on Marine Propulsors (SMP), Launceston, Tasmania
5 May 2013
In this study propeller-hull interaction is investigated numerically using a combination of a steady viscous CFD method (RANS) for the ship flow and ...
sustainable propulsioncfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiestime-domain simulationsresistance and propulsionmarine systemsresearch and developmenthull form optimisationpropeller designpropulsionsimulationspropellerpropulsorresearch
MagazineNew North Sea route structure successfully implemented
MARIN Report 111
25 Apr 2014
Reading time 3 minutes
For centuries, sea life and ships were the only users of the sea but then the offshore industry started to explore and more recently, renewable ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiesinfrastructureauthorities and regulatorsport and channel designsafety
PaperTime Domain Simulations of Side-by-side Moored Vessels - Lessons Learnt from a Benchmark Test
26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2007), San Diego, California, USA
10 Jun 2007
Time domain simulations are used extensively to assess the availability of turret moored terminals for offloading operations. The availability ...
stability, seakeeping and ocean engineeringwaves, impacts and hydrostructuralcfd developmentcfd/simulation/desk studiesmeasurements and controldata sciencetime-domain simulationsrenewablesoil and gasinfrastructuremarine systemslife at seatransport and shippingmodel testingloads and responsesmooring and offloadingmotionsoffloadingsimulationswaves & motionsoffshore engineering