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
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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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MagazineaNySIMpro - the future of validated multi-body simulations
MARIN Report 96
24 Apr 2009
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Last year MARIN introduced the aNySIMpro concept and already the new product is proving successful. Report provides an update.
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PaperModel Scale Measurements of Surface Ship Radiated Flow Noise
NAG-DAGA International Conference on Acoustics, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
24 Mar 2009
Advances in weapon and sensor capabilities are driving an increased interest in the control of underwater signatures of naval platforms. The control ...
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PaperOn the numerical accuracy of the prediction of resistance coefficients in ship stern flow calculations
Journal of Marine Science and Technology
1 Mar 2009
This article presents a study on the accuracy of the numerical determination of the friction and pressure resistance coefficients of ship hulls. The ...
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MagazineMARIN contributes to unique Korean motorway project
MARIN Report 95
29 Jan 2009
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In Korea, a four-lane motorway is being constructed between the city of Busan and Geoje island, reducing travelling times from one hour by ferry to ...
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MagazineSurface Ship Radiated Flow Noise project completed
MARIN Report 95
29 Jan 2009
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Advances in weapon and sensor capabilities are driving an increased interest in the control of underwater signatures of naval platforms.
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MagazineNew unstationary test techniques in the MARIN basin
MARIN Report 95
29 Jan 2009
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To determine mathematical models, Planar Motion Mechanism (PMM) and rotating arm tests have traditionally been used but with the introduction of the ...
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MagazineSimulator answers increasing demand for VTS training
MARIN Report 95
29 Jan 2009
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MARIN already commissioned its first in-house Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) simulator back in 1986. By 1998, this was
replaced by a modern, ...
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