Hull design, sails, ships static and dynamic stability, buoys, energy recovery devices, performance analysis, are all the possible subjects that can be investigated and optimized through numerical modeling.

The software FLOW-3D can help you in simulate (with a realistic 3D, turbulent approach) several floating conditions in any transient situation.
Users can directly import their design of the hull of ship from CAD tools, and quickly setup the sailing conditions:
    • steady cruise speed
    • waves
    • variable mass displacements
    • variable fully-coupled motion (up to 6 DoF)
    • spring and ropes connections

These are just a simple example of all the cruising conditions that can be imposed in our simulation environment.
Results will display a realistic virtual representation of the behavior of our design, making it possible analyze any performance or stability condition and improve it at the design stage before building any real prototype, saving costs and money.

Most common outputs for naval simulations are:
    • pressure and velocity field in every point of the domain
    • drag force (pressure and shear)
    • lift force (pressure and shear) as well as any torque acting on the hull
    • transient analysis
    • gravity center location along the time
    • metacenter height
    • buoyancy center location
    • vorticity and stagnation zones
    • local shear stress

To enforce the design stage, software IOSO Technology can be used to make optimization over the any design tool for hull-design.
IOSO will work in loop with your modeling tools, very fast, searching for very high extrema of performance for your design.