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Virtual tank facility under development
Under the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme, a group of CFD specialists and service providers, led by HSVA, have joined forces to develop a new IT platform for the design of fully hydrodynamically optimised ship hulls. (Source: http://europa.eu/)
“The goal of the VIRTUE Integrated Project (‘Virtual tank utility in Europe’) is to develop new and to improve existing software to deliver a complete toolset for marine hydrodynamics. This includes resistance, propulsion, seakeeping, manoeuvring and cavitation prediction,” explains Marzi. “All of these elements will be integrated in an IT platform aimed at delivering fully hydrodynamically optimised ship hulls, using multi-criteria, multi-objective optimisation.”
