Objective
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The European shipbuilding industry has a strong need to shorten the development cycles and improve its designs by integrating fluid dynamic calculations in the interactive hull design process. Instead of being a separate, off-line process carried out by highly specialised experts, Computational Fluid Dynamios (CFD) calculations are to become an integral part of the designers' day-to-day hull form modelling activities, thus saving important time in a most critical bottleneck process of the ship design. Simultaneously, the quality of the designs will be improved, thus reducing risks, saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of operating the ships.
The system to be developed will be based on state-of-the-art CFD codes and modelling tools and will form a multidisciplinary design optimisation system. This will be achieved through several tightly coupled developments:
- The robustness of leading-edge CFD codes will be increased to a level allowing ship designers to use She tools for a wide range of ship designs.
- Validity ranges of the CFD codes will be established, thus ensuring the quality of the results without involvement of CFD specialists in the calculation process.
- A design methodology will be developed including systematic strategies for hull variation and propulsion system configuration.
- Several geometry modelling tools will be integrated, allowing different strategies for hull form creation and variation.
- The system will be integrated in a modular plug-and-play architecture, allowing components to be added and exchanged. The component interfaces will be standard-based (e.g. STEP).
Only those developments directly supporting the industrial objectives within the project period will be carried out. Necessary basic research and developments pushing state-of-the-art are in parallel proposed to the IT-programme in an LTR project proposal, POSEIDON.
The consortium comprises three major shipyards (ODENSE, MEYER and Kvaerner Masa), together covering a product range representative for all major European yards, the world's leading independent hydrodynamic consultancy, model tank and CFD application company (MARIN), the provider of the world's most advanced CFD tools for hydrodynamic application (FLOWTECH), two universities specialising respectively in design methodology (TUB) and CFD development (CHALMERS) and finally two software companies, one being the world's leading supplier of ship design systems (KCS), the other specialising in integrated software solutions (MAERSK DATA).
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences physical sciences classical mechanics fluid mechanics fluid dynamics computational fluid dynamics
- natural sciences mathematics pure mathematics geometry
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering naval engineering sea vessels
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5100 Odense C
Denmark
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