Safer offshore helicopter landing
Landing a helicopter offshore can be challenging due to turbulence. It is not only the weather that can cause turbulence. The design of…
CFD helps us understand how to better harvest and use offshore wind energy
Dissemination and networking in Ericeira, Portugal for SINTEF Ocean’s Marine CFD team
Prediction of full-scale ship performance using CFD
Model testing has been, and still is, the dominant method to predict the propulsion performance of ships. However, the use of Computational Fluid…
New method enabling the ‘direct numerical simulation’ of three-phase flow of carbon dioxide
Bloggers: Svend Tollak Munkejord, Magnus Aa. Gjennestad, Andrea Gruber, Karl Yngve Lervåg, Åsmund Ervik and Morten Hammer The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report points out…
Oil-water separation: From molecules to drop dynamics
Most oil fields produce water in addition to oil. The water cannot be sold, and it is expensive to transport it. Therefore, the…
Understanding the forces at play when boiling CO2 drives a running pipeline fracture
Bloggers: Svend Tollak Munkejord, Håkon Ottar Nordhagen, Morten Hammer, Stéphane Dumoulin and Eskil Aursand In the unlikely event of a rupture in a…