news LEGO®


Plenty of LEGO®


wind and waves


At the Open Day in November, Gerrit-Jan van der Ziel, a MARIN strain gage application engineer in daily life, used more than 2500 LEGO®


bricks to build the MARIN trains and planes


have been made in the world but MARIN decided to make some LEGO®


wind and waves instead!


Offshore Basin at a scale of 40:1. The detailed model included a real movable floor, wind fans, deepwater pit and 26 LEGO®


wave flaps! See it


for yourself on YouTube by searching for Danish LEGO in Dutch water.


Yacht comfort JIP set to start


MARIN is about to start a Joint Industry Project concerning the assessment, prediction and monitoring of yacht comfort. Despite the availability of criteria to assess the comfort of a yacht, it still remains a very subjective matter. By focusing on what can be measured or calculated (ship motions) and relatively well- predicted matters such as the short-term weather forecast, it is possible to design a


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monitoring and prediction tool to assist captains in taking decisions with regards to routing and anchorage. Furthermore, MARIN is considering starting other JIPs for the yacht industry, which could include sloshing of large swimming pools, slamming of side doors (beach clubs, tender garages, swimming platforms etc.), under- water exhaust scoop design/positioning and embarking/disembarking for safe operations.


If you are interested in the comfort JIP or any other yacht issues, you are more than welcome to join forces with us. Please contact Enrico Della Valentina, e.valentina@marin.nl


DP Thrusters - Understanding Dynamic Loads and Preventing Mechanical Damages Dang, J., Dynamic Positioning Conference, 2014


Differences in workload of both skippers and pilots due to changes in environmental bank lights Uitterhoeve, W.M., Zeilstra, M., Applied human factors and ergonomics conference, 2014


Towards Large-Eddy Simulation Of Complex Flows In Maritime Applications Bandringa, H., Verstappen, R., Wubbs, F., Klaij, C., van der Ploeg, A., 6th Euro- pean Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI), 2014


papers


MARIN offers a wide selection of papers and doctoral theses in the field of hydrodynamics on its website at www.marin.nl.


The most recent publications include:


Delft, April 20-22, 2015 Sustainable energy from and on the sea


Natural propulsion and marine renewable energy need all our passion and skills to help them keep developing. BlueWeek is the dedicated event where the industry and academics can meet and discuss the latest R&D initiatives and projects focusing on sustainability and natural propulsion. Next year the location will be in Delft at the office of Deltares, which kindly proposed to co-organise the 2015 event. On Monday and Wednesday, meetings


concerning running Joint Industry and European Projects will be organised. As usual, some sessions will be reserved for project members only, while others will be open to the public. On Tuesday, seminars and the Forum for new proposals will be held. New initiatives can already be submitted through the website. See www.blueforum.org for the complete programme and for more information please contact blueweek@marin.nl.


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