HULL DESIGN
We have been designing high performance hulls in a broad diversity ranging from 5 to 90 meters of length. Whether you are looking for a speedy pleasure yacht, displacement commercial vessel or a semi-planning naval ship; we have the tools and experience to design an optimized hull.
Methodology
Most of our designs are one design where the vessel is built only once for a specific need. These designs are often built with high expectations in performance. Production hulls also occur in our daily work which most often are built on a tight budget. It is here important to design a hull that is effectively produced.
We use CFD tools to verify the performance of our designs which enable us to present the final product to our customers long before the ship is built.
Computational Fluid dynamics, CFD
We evaluate our hulls with numerical sea trials by utilizing state of the art CFD-methods to simulate full scale flows. It is an efficient method to predict resistance, trim angle and hydrodynamic properties of a hull design.
model test supervision
We are able to offer planning and supervision of model tests to our clients. A combination of model tests and CFD study decreases the overall development cost compared to a complete model test.
“We get the support of Profjord on hull design, hydrodynamic analysis of appendages and seakeeping analysis. We are looking forward to work together in future projects.”
HYDROSTATICS
Included in the hull design is a hydrostatics analysis with GZ-curve for a predefined set of displacements.
We are able through our partners to offer a complete stability booklet for a classification society of your choice.
PARAMETRIC STUDY
The design of a new hull is always initiated by a parametric study where the basic parameters are set. Our long experience in hull design simplifies the parametric study which reduces the optimization process and thereby development costs.
