Maritime/Offshore Industry
CFD is essential in the maritime, offshore, and energy sectors for optimizing vessel designs, improving platform stability, and enhancing energy systems like wind turbines and wave energy. It reduces vessel drag, boosts fuel efficiency, driving sustainable, cost-effective solutions. Additionally, it plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and reliability of offshore structures.
- Resistance calculation
- Seakeeping
- Self-propulsion
- Shape Multi-objective Hull optimization
- Nominal and effective wake field analysis
- Streamlining and optimizing appendage
- Shallow water resistance
- Sloshing of pools/tanks onboard vessels
- Wind comfort on superstructure
- Pollutant dispersion on ship deck
- Cavitation
- Energy system
CFD simulations for offshore/maritime industry
CFD simulations are essential in maritime offshore applications, enabling the detailed analysis of fluid-structure interactions in complex ocean environments. They are used to model wave dynamics, ocean currents, and wind forces on offshore structures such as oil rigs, wind turbines, and floating platforms. CFD helps optimize the design of these structures by predicting hydrodynamic loads, wave-induced motions, and vortex-induced vibrations. In ship design, it evaluates hull performance, resistance, and propulsion efficiency under varying sea conditions. Additionally, CFD supports environmental studies by simulating the dispersion of pollutants or the impact of marine installations on ecosystems. By providing accurate, cost-effective insights, CFD plays a critical role in enhancing safety, efficiency, and sustainability in offshore engineering.
Calm water simulation
Calm water ship CFD simulations were used to analyse a vessel's performance in still water, helping optimize hull design for reduced drag and improved fuel efficiency. These simulations assessed hydrodynamic forces, flow streamlines and better overall ship performance in calm conditions. These simulations also assist in evaluating the flow around the propeller’s inflow plane, commonly referred to as nominal wakefield analysis.
Seakeeping simulations
Sea-keeping CFD simulations have been used to analyse how this vessel performs in various sea conditions, including wave patterns and motion. These simulations helped optimize hull designs for better stability, comfort, and safety, reducing the impact of rough seas and improving overall ship performance in challenging environments.
Why partner with us on Maritime/offshore projects?
We have extensive experience in the maritime industry, ranging from optimizing ship designs to analysing wind loads on offshore structures. Our work spans collaborations with clients from various countries, addressing a wide array of project objectives. Our portfolio highlights expertise in resistance calculations for vessels, sea-keeping performance evaluations, propeller design analysis and optimization, as well as cavitation assessments. Additionally, we frequently tackle complex and unconventional simulations, such as sloshing dynamics in pools and tanks aboard vessels, vessel resistance in shallow waters, and pollutant dispersion on ship decks.