Seakeeping and sloshing

Seakeeping and sloshing

Much of Bureau Veritas’ Research and Development (R&D) work involves improving our understanding – and that of our clients and partners – of hydrodynamics. We work closely with both ship owners, offshore asset owners, engineers and others to model wave loads and assess their impact, using our understanding of fluid dynamics. With this knowledge, we can evaluate fluid interactions, help reduce sloshing risks and improve the overall integrity of an asset.

Our in-house software provides a powerful and independent verification of our clients’ own calculations. Both HYDROSTAR and FOAMSTAR have been developed and updated based on the outcomes of our ongoing R&D endeavors.

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Our Projects

chaire ECN

CHAIRE ECN

#UserGroups #Marine
Bureau Veritas has collaborated with the Ecole Centrale Nantes in the creation of an industry chair to investigate the ships of the future. Our research covers three main aspects:
•Ship safety
•Interacting bodies and flexible connections
•Wave performance

IACS

PT PH49 / PT PH50

#Seakeeping #StructuralIntegrity
PT PH49 and PH50 are IACS initiatives to derive new wave loads from the new North Atlantic scatter diagram. This work will enable an update of CSR, S11 and S11A and the assessment of new wave loads and corrosion margins.

EVAP

EVAP

#Marine
EVap is a co-operative research ship project looking at extreme value predictions to better anticipate ships’ behavior at sea.

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SEACAL

SEACAL

#Marine
Seacal is a co-operative research ship project that aims to develop improvements to seakeeping practices at forward speed.

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TRANSOM

TRANSOM

#SeakeepingAndSloshing
Transom is a co-operative research ship project aiming to better understand and model transom flow for transom optimization. The project will be based on full scale data collection and will be supported by  experimental and numerical simulations. 

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K2+

K2+

#SeakeepingAndSloshing
K2+ is a co-operative research ship project aiming to improve full scale CFD predictions of ship resistance and propeller performance by including surface roughness.

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MAMBO

MAMBO

#SeakeepingAndSloshing
Mambo is a co-operative research ship project aiming to create and experimental validation material to assess ship operational performances.

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SEACAL

SEACAL_2

#SeakeepingAndSloshing
Seacal is a co-operative research ship project that aims to improve Seacal tool developed for  improvements to seakeeping practices at forward speed. 

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SPEC

SPEC

SPEC is a co-operative research ship project that aims to better predict critical events such as slamming, greenwater, run-up or extreme loads and to better define the screening indicators.

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IMBOL

IMBOL

IMBOL JIP is an update of sloshing methodologies following SLING that is a co-operative research ship project that brings together an unparalleled, multidisciplinary team to study impact of boiling liquid on sloashing pressures.


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DIMPACT

DIMPACT+

#MRE#JIP
This project aims to explore in depth the assessment of extreme striking wave loads, also known as "slamming loads", on fixes and floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT). 

DIMPACT+ is a continuation of the previous DIMPACT JIP, which resulted in new methods for computing slamming loads on FOWT.

DIMPACT+ intends to improve DIMPACT’s slamming loads methods, extend them to bottom-fixed technologies with a focus on deep water bottom-fixed and shallow water with strong bottom slope, and develop a specific approach for the definition of the design sea states in presence of breaking waves.

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Our Software

HYDROSTAR

HYDROSTAR

#Software #Marine
HYDROSTAR is our state-of-the-art seakeeping software. It was developed to compute first- and second-order wave loads and vessel responses, in both frequency domains or time domains.

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FOAMSTAR

FOAMSTAR

#Software #Marine
FOAMSTAR is our in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. It is based on the openFOAM open-source software, complimented by our own developments for specific seakeeping and sloshing applications and hydro-structure coupling.

HYDROSTAR

HYDROSTAR-V

#Software #Marine
Hydrostar-V will be a new in-house seakeeping software, based on boundary integral equations. It includes a new formulation of the Geen function, which includes some dissipation effects.