Chinese shipbuilder New Times Shipbuilding (NTS) introduces simulation-driven design to its product development through a contractual agreement with GL’s maritime software developer Friendship Systems. The contract includes the licensing of engineering software and design support for the development of a large crude oil tanker.
Friendship-Framework is a CAE software system for the simulation-driven design of optimal functional surfaces like ship hulls, rudders, propellers and other maritime systems exposed to a flow regime. The development of optimally task-suitable, energy efficient, high performing designs is achieved in a streamlined design process which is built around integrated simulation. Parametric modelling, variant generation and assessment, as well as hydrodynamic optimization are key design steps which are fed by the simulation results and lead to an optimal design.
Picture: Shipyard NTS in China
