Brief
profile
The Hamburg
Ship Model Basin (HSVA) was founded in 1913 and is a non-profit organisation
which is supported by 28 German shipyards and ship owners. HSVA is one
of the leading facilities in hydrodynamics, marine design and ice technology.
The company serves national and international customers with scientific
and engineering expertise in the following working areas:
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Resistance and
propulsion,
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Computational
fluid dynamics (CFD),
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Seakeeping, manoeuvring
and ship trials,
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Propeller, cavitation
and hydroacoustics,
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Ice and environmental
technology.
The main research
and consulting activities of HSVA are:
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Model tests and
numerical calculations for the prediction of resistance and propulsion
of ships in open water and in ice,
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Manoeuvring tests
and numerical manoeuvring simulation,
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Theoretical and
experimental prediction on seaworthiness of ships and offshore structures,
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Ice technology
with respect to experimental and numerical ice breaking performance of
ships, forces on structures, basic ice mechanics and full scale tests,
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Environmental
research on oil spills in open water and in ice.
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Ice
model test with an icebreaker in HSVA's Large Ice Model Basin
Image
courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA
Facilities
For these purposes
four major test facilities with sophisticated measuring equipment are available:
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Large Towing
Tank of 300 m in length, 18 m width and 6 m depth equipped with 8.2
m/s towing carriage, a double flap wave maker and a computerised planar
motion carriage (CPMC) for manoeuvring tests.
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HYKAT a
large hydrodynamic and cavitation tunnel with a 11 m long test area of
2.8 m x 1.6 m cross-section allowing flow velocity up to 12 m/s.
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Large
Ice Model Basin of 78 m in length, 10 m width and 2.5 m (partially
5.0 m) depth with towing carriage and adjustable shallow water bottom capable
temperatures down to -25°C.
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Arctic
Environmental Test Basin of 30 m in length, 6 m width and 1.5 m depth
with the capability simulating circulating currents, waves and ice.
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Ice
model tests of the offshore jacket platform JZ-20 in the Large Ice Model
Basin
Image
courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA
Involvement
in and contributions to the LOLEIF project
HSVA was the
project co-ordinator of the LOLEIF project and responsible for it's management
assigned under
Task 6.
The institution led Task
3 - Data Management, Subtask
2.3 - Ice Force Measurements at Lighthouse and Subtask
2.4 - Determination and Transfer of Ice Force Affecting Parameters
and contributed to Subtask 2.1
- Level Ice Properties.
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HSVA
participates actively in full scale tests and sea trials within Arctic
and Antarctic research activities and made for instance major design
contributions to and initialised construction optimisation for the German
research icebreaker R/V Polarstern - one of the world's most
modern
research vessels for Arctic and Antarctic investigations.
Image
courtesy of K.-U. Evers, HSVA
Project
Links
HSVA's
Ice and Environmental Technology is engaged in various other European projects
and marine research activities supported by the European Commission.
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ARCTECLAB
- HSVA's Large Ice Model Basin and Arctic Environmental Test Basin are
European Large Scale Facilities. HSVA is offering the access to the facilities
for scientists, researchers and engineers from European and associated
countries under the EU-TMR-Programme.
Contacts
Hamburgische
Schiffbau-
Versuchsanstalt
GmbH
Bramfelder
Str. 164
D-22305 Hamburg
Germany
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For information
regarding
HSVA's participation
in
the LOLEIF
project:
Dr.-Ing.
Joachim Schwarz
LOLEIF Project
Co-ordinator
c/o GMT
- Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik
Alter Achterkamp
74b, D-22927 Großhansdorf, Germany
Dr. Walter
Kühnlein
STRICE
Project Co-ordinator
Dipl.-Ing.
Peter Jochmann
Project Scientist
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Please visit
also HSVA's web site
for further information.
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in
compliance with applicable terms and conditions for
European
Commission Research and Development Projects
and
agreements within the LOLEIF Project Consortium.
