Purpose

Direct calculation of hydrodynamic hull girder loads is becoming the industry standard to determine the actual hydrodynamic loads acting on vessels and to ensure adequate fatigue and ultimate strength on new designs, thus replacing formula-based rule loads with more accurate calculations

Benefits

DNV has broad and multi-disciplinary competence within different types of advanced hydrodynamic problems. In-depth understanding of the physical and mechanical characteristics of complicated problems mixed with long experience and a practical engineering approach ensures high quality services within this field.

Features

Technical consultancy services cover several different topics within the field of hydrodynamics and require the use of specialized applications such as WASIM, HydroD (WADAM) and several other in-house solutions as well as CFD tools. The following technical services can be delivered by the hydrodynamic group 

• Seakeeping and concept evaluation

• Wave-load analysis

• Non-linear motion analysis including whipping, slamming loads

• Sloshing in LNG tanks