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Test facilities
The hydrodynamic test facilities present
at a model basin site include at least a
towing tank and a cavitation tunnel and
workshops. Some ship model basins
have further facilities such as a
maneuvering and seakeeping basin and
an ice tank.
Towing tank
Cavitation tunnel
Ice tank
Software
Additionally, these companies or
authorities have CFD software and
experience to simulate the complicated
flow around ships and their rudders and
propellers numerically. Today's state of
the art does not yet allow software to
replace model tests in their entirety by
CFD calculations. One reason, but not the
only one, is that elementization is still
expensive. Also the lines design of some
of the ships is carried out by the
specialists of the ship model basin,
either from the beginning or by
optimizing the initial design obtained
from the shipyard. The same applies to
the design of propellers.
Examples
The ship model basins worldwide are
organized in the ITTC [1] (International
Towing Tank Conference) to standardize
their model test procedures.
References
1. Brown, David K. (2006). The Way of a
Ship in the Midst of the Sea: The Life
and Work of William Froude .
Penzance: Periscope Publishing.
p. 143. ISBN 1-904381-40-5.
2. "The Scientific and Management
Revolution in Shipbuilding on the
"Two Clydes," 1880-1900" (PDF). The
Nautical Research Guild. Summer
2013.
Ultramarine Inc. web page on vessel
modeling
External links
"Putting More Speed And Power In Our
Navy" , June 1943, Popular Science
large and well illustrated article on
towing basins
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