MY Wheels - An expedition through MARINs services

摘要

For the 50m expedition vessel MY Wheels, MARIN assisted its designer Vripack~R with design consultancy and model testing. Work focused on propulsive efficiency, comfort, controllability and safety during transit and low speed operations. Report outlines the work. By means of CFD calculations the hull lines have been optimised in order to minimise the wave resistance. And this took into account typical yacht restrictions concerning anchor handling, aesthetics, as well as bow and aftbody slamming. This optimisation led to an approximate 10% reduction in wave resistance, representing about 6% of total resistance.