PaperApplication of the SIMPLE Algorithm to a Manufactured Subsonic Flow
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
In general, numerical flow simulations in naval and offshore industries consider the fluids to be incompressible, i.e., with constant density. ...
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PaperCode Verification exercise for 2D Poiseuille flow with non-Newtonian fluid
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
Safe navigation in port and waterways is ensured by setting a minimum distance between the ship’s keel and the bottom, known as the under keel ...
cfdmanoeuvringnautical operationsauthorities and regulatorscfd/simulation/desk studies
PaperAssessment of RANS Transition Models
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
Many naval and aeronautical applications deal with flows which occur at Reynolds numbers that are typically larger than 107. Under these conditions ...
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PaperOn the Role of Iterative Errors in Unsteady Flow Simulations
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
Simulation of (statistically) unsteady flows is no longer an exceptional task in Engineering applications. For wall bounded (turbulent) flows at ...
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PaperEvaluation of a Coupled Level Set and Volume of Fluid Method for Unstructured Meshes
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
A model for free surface flows has been developped for fully unstructured CFD solvers, coupling a Volume of Fluid (VOF) method (Hirt et al. 1981) ...
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PaperImplementation and Verification of an Explicit Overset Grid Method
21st Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS 2018), Cortona, Italy
30 Sep 2018
The design of modern ships capable of achieving complex manoeuvres and handle dynamic ocean environment requires a precise understanding of the flow ...
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MagazineReFRESCO successfully coupled to ParaView Catalyst for in-situ analysis
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 3 minutes
When running complex parallel calculations on thousands of processors, the amount of data generated quickly becomes a bottleneck. To tackle this ...
cfd development
MagazineAdvanced backbone deployed to measure bending modes of ultralarge container vessels
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN carried out a series of model tests on behalf of the Marine Designand Research Institute of China (MARIC) to assess the flexural responseof an ...
transport and shippingmodel testingstructural response
MagazinePrediction methods for sailing yachts in the early design phase
MARIN Report 124
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 ...
cfd/simulation/desk studiesresistance and propulsionpassengers and yachting
MagazineReal-time simulations to test propulsion alternatives
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 3 minutes
MARIN helps yacht owners make vital decisions about the propulsion and thruster configurations best suited to their yacht by using virtual ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiessustainable propulsioncfd/simulation/desk studies
MagazineMeasuring the deformations of a composite propeller at full scale
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
Important measurement data was gathered at full scale to facilitate the design of shape-adaptive propellers. Ship propellers are generally ...
waves, impacts and hydrostructuralmeasurements and controlpropeller and cavitationmonitoring
MagazineTackling increasing cruise vessel dimensions in virtual reality
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
MARIN has performed simulator research and advanced simulator training for major cruise ship builder Meyer Werft to assist the yard with handling ...
manoeuvring and nautical studiessafe operations and human factorspassengers and yachtingtraining
MagazineFloating Future Seminar and BlueWeek success
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
‘Better Ships, Blue Oceans’ is our credo. To achieve this, we are starting up research projects together with the industry, research organisations ...
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MagazineAddressing the elusive issue of comfort onboard
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 6 minutes
In a world that brings pretty much anything to you at the press of an app, we are often asked why it is so difficult to assess comfort onboard a ...
safe operations and human factorsmarine systemspassengers and yachtingcomfort
MagazineThe challenges of building the biggest cruise ship in the world
MARIN Report 124
15 Aug 2018
Reading time 9 minutes
Report interviews Loic Morand, Head of STX Europe’s Hydrodynamic Department, about whether the industry can go on building even larger vessels and ...
sustainable propulsionresistance and propulsionpropeller and cavitationhull form optimisationcruise and ferry