Solutions for vessel designers

The design process can be a constant spiral of iterations that seek to find the best compromise between competing objectives. However, often a vessel’s dynamic behaviour is reflected in those decisions made early in the concept design stage, when the form and proportions are decided and fixed.

Ship Dynamics can assist designers

• in the concept stage and thereafter, with model testing and the supporting analysis;
• by providing advice about various appendages and control components that influence the vessel dynamics, through the use of analysis tools, and
• at the design conclusion by documenting the vessel’s seakeeping performance for a client who has a specific operating route in mind. In this case, a seakeeping prediction may well provide the client with the peace of mind that the vessel will perform to expectations whilst also supplying the designer with the evidence to promote the design.

The potential benefit to the designer will be in

• specifying a better ship design;
• receiving assistance in a model test program;
• documenting a design’s seakeeping capability, and
• specifying the control system platform and stabilisation devices.