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Benchmark model test data on ship behaviour in locks

Open access has been given to a selection of experimental data from model tests studying the behaviour of ships in or near locks. Researchers can use these data to validate numerical tools and mathematical models.

The first set of benchmark data were carried out with self-propelled models and were selected from model tests carried out in 2007-2008 to investigate the behaviour of vessels transiting the Panama Canal Third Set of Locks, which is presently under construction. The tests were carried out in a 1/80 scale model of a lock and an approach channel at Flanders Hydraulics Research. The second set of benchmark data were selected from systematic captive model tests carried out in the 1990s in the towing tank for manoeuvres in shallow water as a first step in a feasibility study for receiving bulk carriers with larger beam in the Pierre Vandamme Lock in Zeebrugge. This lock has a length of 500m, a width of 57 m and a depth of 18.5m. A 1/75 scale model of the lock configuration was constructed in the towing tank, with special attention to the asymmetric layout of the approach channel.

The data can be obtained by mailing to info@shallowwater.be. A digital version of the benchmark data will then be sent to you, along with an accompanying paper describing the experimental set-up.

Benchmark model test data on ship - ship interaction

Benchmark model data obtained from tests at Flanders Hydraulics are available for evaluation purposes. The data for the forces and moments due to ship - ship interaction can be used to compare with results from numerical methods and simulation tools. This research project was carried in the framework of the project "KMB Investigating hydrodynamic aspect and control systems for ship-to-ship operations", co-ordinated by MARINTEK and financially supported by the Research Council of Norway. A selection of the model test results is made available by the project management and was published in MARSIM 2009. Please mail to request the digital version of this benchmark data.

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