New cavitation tunnel for Vietnamese shipbuilding centre

摘要

The shift of the maritime industry to the east - initially to the Far East - has lasted for over 20 years, and the expansion to South Eastern Asia countries, unknown on such a scale, has been evident for over 10 years. These countries, well-known for design and manufacturing technology as well as production, have recently initiated the last development stage - the know-how related to model tests. This will enable these places to reduce shipbuilding costs, train their own scientific personnel, and gain complete independence from countries and research centres, which have traditionally been involved in this field. In this article Alicja Koscinska and Leszek Wilczynski from Centrum Techniki Okretowej (CTO) discuss a new test centre that this Polish model basin is designing and installing for the National Shipbuilding Laboratorial Centre in Hanoi, Vietnam.