Ship&Offshore | Issue 08/2012
Advanced simulations support ballast water treatment process
CFD The design and operation of ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) pose extensive and costly challenges for shipowners. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) facilitates design, type approval and troubleshooting, write Tobias Zorn and Jan Kaufmann of FutureShip, a Hamburg-based consulting and engineering company, and Milovan Peric‚ of CD-adapco, a CFD-focused provider of engineering simulation software, support and services headquartered in the US.