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Industry: Marine

  • Cflow – Designing Gentler Vacuum Diffusers

    Challenges Fish welfare during transfer depends on flow behavior that cannot be seen from outside the equipment. Concepts chosen on the strength of previous vessels could not be compared against each other before commitment. An unvalidated concept stalls decisions and forces repeated rework of solid models and drawings. Outsourced analysis costs a multiple of in-house…

  • Emrgy – Designing Hydro Turbines for Irrigation Canals

    Challenge Designing vertical-axis turbines for non-disruptive canal installation presents complex fluid dynamics challenges. Emrgy’s design goals extend beyond maximizing power output; they must also minimize hydraulic disruption, maintain acceptable upstream water levels, and preserve flow conditions vital to irrigation system operators. A key challenge in deploying these systems is understanding both localized and large-scale hydrodynamic…

  • Brainbox Matrix Services – Validating a WIG Craft Design

    The Challenge Brainbox Matrix Services turned to SimScale when they had a project that required them to study the behavior of a wing in ground effect for a marine craft (WIG). They decided to use computer-aided engineering (CAE) in the process based on their knowledge of its cost advantage, shorter research period, and more accurate…

  • The Hydrofoil Company – Simulating 76 Design Iterations with CFD

    Hydrofoil Design Challenges Yet in the wake of this modern hydro-era, the demands on design and performance for all of these activities have proved to be incredibly challenging. Within the surf hydrofoil market alone, designs must be extremely efficient at lower speeds, but also must be able to handle quick acceleration and be easily controlled…

  • Stewart Technology Associates – Optimizing a Navaid Float Design

    The Challenge Taking advantage of STA’s significant experience in naval engineering, a customer requested their services for the validation of an articulated navaid’s (navigational aid) design. This was confirmed by the customer during the first live tests and resulted in significant costs and damages. To avoid further problems, the customer reached out to STA to…