Suc­cess­ful Design Chal­lenges at SMM 2016

Last week at the SMM 2016 in Hamburg, Germany, FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS had finished two design chal­lenges for the CFD-based opti­miza­tion of ship hulls.

Chal­lenge 1: Ship Opti­miza­tion on an iPad

In the first chal­lenge, par­tic­i­pants could modify the para­met­ric CAD geometry of a given ship hull (an offshore supply vessel) and imme­di­ately run a flow sim­u­la­tion for their design can­di­dates. This amazing com­pe­ti­tion was wrapped in an easy-to-use browser-based appli­ca­tion, and more infor­ma­tion about it can be found in the SMM design opti­miza­tion chal­lenge blog post. We had around 40 par­tic­i­pants from the maritime industry, and we are happy to announce the winners today:

1. Carsten Standfuß (TAMSEN MARITIM GmbH)
2. Ruedi Stadel­mann (Shiptec AG)

The first price is a Noise Can­cel­la­tion Head­phone PXC 250 II, while the second price is a BOSE Sound­Sport In-Ear Head­phone. Con­grat­u­la­tions and thanks a lot to all ​“design­ers” for par­tic­i­pat­ing and making the chal­lenge a real fun event. Thanks also to HSVA who provided the CFD code ν‑SHALLO for this event.

Chal­lenge 2: Con­tainer Vessel in Marine Workshop

The second chal­lenge was part of the joint marine workshop with NUMECA. The atten­dees changed a set of design vari­ables that con­trolled the shape of a con­tainer vessel. After that, the modified shape could be analyzed by NUMECA’s sim­u­la­tion software FINETM/​Marine on a remote machine from our partners CPU/24. Geometry modeling and CFD inte­gra­tion as well sim­u­la­tion man­age­ment were realized by CAESES®. Thanks to all atten­dees — we hope it had been worth­while to join the workshop, and we also hope that you have enjoyed this little design competition :-)