Seminar 24th November 2015 11 a.m. 176/2013
NGCM Seminar: Ship Science research at MARIN
James Hawkes
University of Southampton
- Categories
- CFD, fluid structure interaction, Free surface flows, NGCM, Ship Hydrodynamics, Transport
- Submitter
- Susanne Ufermann Fangohr
Simulations of ship manoeuvering in ReFRESCO. Source: www.refresco.org.
Summary
MARIN (Maritiem Research Instituut Nederlands) are one of the leading research agencies and engineering consultancies for the maritime industry. They are world-leaders in experimental fluid dynamics, with many state-of-the-art facilities including multiple towing tanks and ocean basins. They also make extensive use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and have an R&D team dedicated to development of an in-house CFD code (ReFRESCO). The code is a joint project, masterminded by MARIN, with several universities around the world -- including the University of Southampton.
UoS and MARIN are currently working together on adapting ReFRESCO for use on next-generation HPC; trying to identify bottlenecks to scalability and create new algorithms for massively-parallel machines.
This presentation will look at how joint research projects with MARIN are handled, and how they fit with a PhD program. It will also look in more detail at some of the computational modelling going on at MARIN, and some of the work currently being done by the UoS/MARIN partnership on HPC & CFD.
Bio
James graduated from the University of Southampton in 2013 with an MEng (Hons) in Ship Science. As an undergraduate James focused on the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), as applied to Naval Architecture. He undertook an internship with MARIN in 2012, which triggered the opportunities for post-graduate work. James is now 2 years into a PhD as a joint UoS/MARIN researcher. He spends approximately half his time working in the UK, and half in the Netherlands.