The end of the model test era?

摘要

Seatrade Groningen has finalised a program of 10 newbuilding vessels (completed in April 2019), delivered from different Chinese yards during the past 21/2 years. Based upon its experiences, the ship management company would like to share some of the findings which are part of a wider aspect covered by in-house analyses and related to the fleet performance monitoring program. This article is intended as a comparison between available results from the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) stage, model test and sea trials for recently delivered newbuilding vessels, which are a part of four newbuilding projects.