Sailing through fluid mud: Verification and Validation of a CFD model for simulations of ships sailing in muddy areas

The increasing size of today's ships is a major concern for navigation in confined waters. In order to ensure safe manoeuvres, port authorities prescribe, among others, a minimum under-keel clearance that must be maintained by the ships during navigation. However, the seabed of ports situated at the estuaries or along rivers is often covered by...

A study of the transition ice speed from intermittent crushing to frequency lock-in vibrations based on model-scale experiments

For the design of offshore structures in regions with ice-infested waters, the prediction of interaction between ice floe and support structure is essential. If the structure is vertically sided at the ice-structure interface, then ice-induced vibrations can develop. Recently, a dynamic icestructure interaction model has been developed and...

Calibration and validation for the vessel maneuvering prediction (VMP) model using AIS data of vessel encounters

The Vessel Maneuvering Prediction (VMP) model, which was developed in a previous work with the aim of predicting the interaction between vessels in ports and waterways, is optimized in this paper by considering the relative position and vessel size (length and beam). The calibration is carried out using AIS data of overtaking vessels in the...