Significant upgrade of Anti Roll Tank (ART) design services


MARIN has recently invested in new methodologies and modern tools to improve its services related to ART design.


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Michiel Gunsing, Bastien Abeil & Nicolas Carette m.gunsing@marin.nl


nti Roll Tanks (ART) are a popular solution among naval architects to reduce the roll motion. As well


as improving roll behaviour, these tanks have the advantage of not requiring much power to work and they don’t generate any added resistance because they do not


Figure 1: FREDYN/COMFLOW coupling


protrude from the hull. However, many designers admit that ART design choices are, to a great extent, driven by past experience rather than by fundamental knowledge or tools. Numerical tools or model tests are only used for final verification and not as design aides in the development phase.


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