Optimise and verify Offshore Wind Support Vessels

FAQ

• How can wind tunnel tests contribute to optimising Offshore Wind Vessels' design?
  Wind tunnel tests enhance Offshore Wind Vessels' designs, improving operational performance at by evaluating wind and current loads during operational conditions like installation.
• How can Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) services optimise hull forms for fuel-efficient CTV, WTIV and CSOV designs?
  CFD analyses interaction effects to optimise hull forms, ensuring fuel efficiency and enhancing performance for both single and catamaran hulls.
• What role do resistance and self-propulsion CFD simulations play in assessing speed and power prediction during the early vessel design phase?
  CFD simulations provide crucial insights into speed and power prediction, enabling engineers to make informed decisions during the early design stages.
• How do seakeeping computations contribute to assessing vessel motions and ensuring passenger comfort, particularly in minimising sea sickness?
  Seakeeping computations evaluate vessel motions, ensuring passenger comfort by minimising sea sickness through advanced analysis.
• What are bollard pull simulations, and how do they contribute to vessel design and performance evaluation?
  Bollard pull simulations assess the vessel's pulling capacity, providing essential data for evaluating design and performance parameters.
• What kind of testing does FORCE Technology offer in the towing tank facility?
  Towing tank services include propeller open-water tests, resistance and self-propulsion tests, and evaluation of various propulsion systems to optimise vessel performance. We also conduct tests to evaluate energy-saving devices and trim optimisation techniques, ensuring efficient vessel operation while minimising environmental impact. Further, manoeuvring, sea keeping and dynamic positioning tests can ensure vessels have good maneuvring characteristics, and are efficient, safe and operational.
• How do paint streamline tests aid in visualising flow around the vessel and aligning appendages?
  Paint streamline tests provide visual insights into flow patterns, helping engineers optimise vessel design and alignment of appendages for improved performance.
• What is the significance of 3D nominal wake measurements in propeller plan flow assessment and propeller design optimisation?
  These measurements assess propeller plan flow, guiding propeller designers in optimising propeller design for maximum efficiency.
• How are rough weather conditions simulated to test holding/mooring capabilities against wind turbine foundations?

  Towing tank tests simulate rough weather conditions to assess vessel holding/mooring capabilities against wind turbine foundations, ensuring operational safety and reliability.

  By providing realistic conditions to assess your vessel's behavior under various operating conditions, we can help you optimise vessel design, fuel consumption, maneuvering capabilities, and seakeeping ability.