ANALYSIS, PREDICTION & OPTIMIZATION OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF WIND-ASSISTED OR FULLY WIND-PROPELLED SHIPS
ANALYSIS, PREDICTION & OPTIMIZATION OF THE HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF WIND-ASSISTED OR FULLY WIND-PROPELLED SHIPS Fabian Thies1*, Moritz Schaefer1, Francesco Coslovich2, H. Renzsch11 Friendship Systems AG, Potsdam, Germany2 Flowtech International AB, Gothenburg, Sweden ABSTRACT In new design and retrofit projects where wind propulsion is applied, it is crucial to quickly and accurately predict the hydrodynamic properties of […]
WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? ANALYZING SIMULATION-DRIVEN DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TRENDS IN MARINE ENGINEERING BY SCOPING REVIEW
WHERE ARE WE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING? ANALYZING SIMULATION-DRIVEN DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TRENDS IN MARINE ENGINEERING BY SCOPING REVIEW T.P. Scholcz1,∗, A. Serani2 1 Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN), Wageningen, The Netherlands2 National Research Council-Institute of Marine Engineering (CNR-INM), Rome, Italy∗ Corresponding author: t.p.scholcz@marin.nl Presented at the 11th International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine […]
CFD MODELLING OF AIR LUBRICATION SYSTEMS IN SHIPS
CFD Modelling of Air Lubrication Systems in Ships Roya Shademani1, Tommi Mikkola1, Teemu Manderbacka1, Sasan Tavakoli2, Heikki Remes11Department of Mechanical engineering, Aalto University 2 University of Melbourne, AustraliaRoya.shademani@aalto.fi Presented at the 26th Numerical Towing Tank Symposium (NuTTS) – Duisburg, Germany – October 2024 ABSTRACT Maritime transportation dominates global trade, with oceangoing ships, including container […]
PROPELLER EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT
EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT OF MARINE PROPELLERS VIA REFORMATION OF BLADE TIP-RAKE DISTRIBUTION Dimitra Anevlavi, Spiros Zafeiris, George Papadakis & Kostas Belibassakis School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NTUA)Correspondence: kbel@fluid.mech.ntua.gr ABSTRACT This work addresses the effects of blade tip-rake reformation on the performance of marine propellers using a low-cost potential-based vortex-lattice method (VLM) and the […]
OPERATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS
OPERATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS TO AID THE OPTIMIZATION OF RETROFIT SOLUTIONS WITHIN ‘RETROFIT55’ FRAMEWORK N. Themelis, School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NTUA)G. Nikolaidis, SimFWDV. Zagkas, SimFWDN. Tsoulakos, Laskaridis Shipping Co. LtdCorresponding author: nthemelis@naval.ntua.gr Presented at the 17th Annual Conference of Marine Technology (ΕΛ.Ι.Ν.Τ.) – Athens, Greece – November 2023 ABSTRACT The RETROFIT55 EU […]
Meet the Partners #14 – SimFWD, Greece
As a concluding post of this series, we would like to introduce SimFWD, one of the leading Ship Design offices in Greece. SimFWD is renowned for their expertise with advanced engineering tools like FEA & CFD. Having several years of experience with these tools, SimFWD shall contribute with their expertise in tasks concerning the Hydrodynamic Optimization of the case study […]
Meet the Partners #5 – Liverpool John Moores University, UK
The aforementioned Passive Air Lubrication System (PALS) technology requires a good understanding of the hydrodynamics involved in order to maximize it’s effects. Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) shall contribute to this task with their expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Meet the Partners #5 – Liverpool John Moores University, UK Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is a public teaching, […]
HYDRODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF SHIPS
HYDRODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF SHIPS WITH RETROFITTED WASP SYSTEMS Hannes F. Renzsch, Fabian Thies (Friendship Systems AG, Germany) Presented at Innov’Sails conference – Lorient, France – May 2023ABSTRACT Wind assisted ship propulsion has the potential to be one of the mainstays of emission reduction of commercial shipping. As it is not feasible to simply replace the […]
