“Helsinki Shipyard had good experience of STAR-CCM+ in earlier ship design projects and hence it was naturally choice for shipyard to continue to implement STAR-CCM+ into design process. Typical simulations are related to the hull form optimization and power predictions. The hull form optimization is important subject for the ship designed in Helsinki Shipyard. The focus is to design and build passenger cruise ships and other demanding special type of ships, especially ice-going ships. In the future, advanced numerical methods will be increasingly important for the Helsinki Shipyard and STAR-CCM+ is one of the important programs to design innovative ships. Shipyard will co-operate with Volupe to get good support and experience expanding the usage of STAR-CCM+ for new and even more challenging subject in field of physics.”

Janne Rantanen – Head of Department, Naval Architecture