Feature 3
Foran design for Viking Line
Sevilla Shipyard selects Sener package for complex ro-pax vessel design.
General
S
panish engineering and consultancy
company Sener has linked with Sevilla
arrangement for
Shipyard over the basic and detail
Viking Line’s new
engineering of a new Viking Line ro-pax
ro-pax ferry, to
ferry. According to the agreement, Sener will
be built at Sevilla
use its own FORAN CAD/CAM system.
Shipyard.
The integrated computer system,
specifically developed for design and
construction of ships, will be used in the
design of the 133m length, 1500 passenger separate parts purchased by private groups. interactive and concurrent definition of
and container vessel, which is planned to Since its acquisition, the yard has been the ship 3D product model. The package
operate short international routes on the focusing on developing its expertise in the includes hullform definition, naval
Baltic Sea. The design will feature nine decks, ro-ro, ro-pax, and ferry markets, although architecture, hull structure, outfitting,
a 21.9m beam, and a 5.7m draught, while latest reports indicate that the yard will also electrical and accommodation features,
the propulsion machinery will consist of build chemical tankers, oil tankers, and as well as a number of common modules
four diesel engines with two shaft lines with multi-purpose vessels within a short period (build strategy, drafting, walk-through
variable pitch propeller. of time. design review, collaborative engineering),
The Viking Line ferry will be the first vessel Sener said that the user base of the links with production equipment (cutting
built in Sevilla Shipyard after the Huelva FORAN System now stretches to over 130 machines, bending machines, robotic
Shipyard acquisition. Sevilla Shipyard was shipyards and design offices. Running on systems, etc), interfaces to management
previously part of the state-owned IZAR Windows workstations connected through systems, and its own integrated
group that has been recently dissolved, with LAN or WAN, FORAN permits a fully development environment. NA
Collaboration holds the key for CFD
Computational-based engineering firm CD-adapco and classification
society Germanischer Lloyd are to work more closely together.
C
D-adapco and Germanischer Lloyd critical role in the decision making process.’
have signed a new agreement in Raimund Schipp, CD-adapco European
the sector of Computational Fluid director of sales, added: ‘Computer simulation
Dynamics (CFD) for marine applications. The technology is finally fulfilling its enormous
collaboration will include mutual publications, potential. The availability of accurate and
development, and validation, as well as reliable predictions at the earliest stage of the
workshops. design process leads to significant savings in
Dr Ould el Moctar, GL head of department effort and money, compared to performing
fluid dynamics, said: ‘Germanischer Lloyd From left to right: Engin Cetindogan, and tests and amending the design later in the
and CD-adapco have already been working Raimund Schipp, CD-adapco, Karsten Fach process.’
together for many years. Both parties have of GL, Prof Milovan Peric, technical director ‘The true value offered by advanced
considerable experience in the field of CFD for CD-Adapco, and Dr Ould el Moctar, head engineering providers lies in the symbiosis of
analyses.’ of Department Fluid Dynamics at GL. software or hardware and highly skilled staff,’
In the past, the organisations have published Dr el Moctar said. ‘Modelling therefore also
papers on wave loads and on the simulation of requires considerable collective experience.’
sloshing in LNG tanks, which have been jointly underestimated, Dr el Moctar stressed: ‘The This was why the new cooperation was so very
authored by Dr el Moctar and CD-adapco technological progress of simulation in this interesting, Mr Schipp said: ‘We will combine
technical director, Prof Milovan Peric. sector is rapid, both for software and hardware. both the theoretical as well as practical
The importance of computer-aided Simulation technology is employed in a wide experience of our two companies to come up
engineering in shipping cannot be range of marine applications and often plays a with beneficial solutions.’ NA
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