Simulation studies for maritime operations are instrumental in reaching and making the right decisions and in testing the complexity of a maritime project.
Virtual world replicating future reality
Virtual reality provides a very efficient simulator based environment for evaluation and risk assessment of numerous marine operations and projects such as:
- Placement of navigational aids
- Breakwater layout and alignment, including width and alignment of approach channels
- Arrival/departure conditions for existing or new port facilities
- Ship motions in both frequency and time domains giving accurate assessments of e.g. risk of grounding
- Ship motions of moored vessels along an open or a closed structure
- Controllability of vessels at limited water depth
- Operational guidelines including determination of tug assistance
Simulators have been used within the maritime world for decades, both for engineering and training purposes. They are essentially virtual vessels with mock-up bridges fitted with real consoles and manoeuvring handles navigating in real-time in a virtual world replicating future reality.
The value of simulating
One of the powerful benefits of simulation is that it affects in a variety of ways the perspective of those who participate. The participants begin to have a more holistic and better understanding of the complexities of the issues and various interests at stake, thereby creating common ground and essentially bringing stakeholders together.
Our six-degrees-of-freedom DEN-Mark1 hydrodynamic model has been under continuous development for the last 30 years and is renowned for how it represents the temporal and spatial performance of a vessel accurately and down to detail. It does replicate reality.