Clean power in shallow water
- Green energy transition in shipping and near-shore emissions
- Manoeuvring in shallow water with Efficiency Improving Devices
- Auxiliary propulsion in shallow water, including wind assistance
Related topics
- Shallow water effects on ship manoeuvring
- Ship - bank interaction and other confined water effects
- Ship - ship interaction, including overtaking, encountering, passing moored vessels, lightering, replenishment and ship-tug interaction
- Squat and other vertical motions in shallow water
- Ship - fender interaction
The papers presented on the conference cover experience from different points of view:
- Field observations and full scale measurements
- Experimental results
- Numerical calculations, including CFD
- Practical aspects
- Simulation models for training and research
International Scientific Committee
To make sure that papers of high quality will be presented at the conference, submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.
Programme 7th MASHCON
From 18 to 21 May 2025 | |
Grand Hotel Casselbergh, Bruges, Belgium | |
| 18 May 2025 (Sunday) | |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Registration + Welcome Reception at Hotel Casselbergh |
| 19 May 2025 (Monday) | |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Opening address by the Knowledge Centre |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keynote by Florent Maes from CLdN |
Session 1: Resistance - Chair: Zhiming Yuan | |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Gijs Struijk - Shallow water speed/power trials with cruise liner for benchmarking |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | José Villagómez - On the resistance estimation of an inland vessel in shallow and confined water |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Refreshment break |
Session 2: Inland vessel - Chair: Lu Zou | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Lahbib Zentari - Application of CFD for the prediction of hydrodynamic forces acting on an inland waterway ship in shallow waters. Lessons learned from the SHINING Workshop |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Antoine Bedos - Combining numerical and experimental methods to explain ship-bank interactions |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Zhi-Ming Yuan - Unsteady hydrodynamics of a box when entering a lock |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 3: Track control - Chair: Eduardo Aoun Tannuri | |
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Katrien Eloot - Simulation and application of model-based and model-free track controllers for ship manoeuvring in shallow and confined water |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Matthias Tenzer - Enhanced free-running manoeuvring tests of inland vessels in model scale |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Zi-Qiang Zheng - Course-keeping simulations of a ship in confined waterways based on integrated CFD method and control algorithm |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Refreshment break |
Session 4: Hydrodynamics effects - Chair: Furukawa Yoshitaka | |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Andreas Verbeke - Validation of SlenderFlow in ship – ship interaction scenarios |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Sara Sanz Sáenz - A systematic study on ROPES modelling of the interaction forces between a sailing ship and a ship moored at a quay wall with a complex geometry |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Justin Jasa - Exploring the hydrodynamic effects at high rudder angles on inland vessels |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | Suli Lu - Numerical study on the rudder inflow behind the hull and the propeller in four quadrants |
| 17:20 - 18:20 | City tour |
| 20 May 2025 (Tuesday) | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Open address |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Keynote by Marcel Cleijsen from Wärtsilä |
Session 5: Shallow water - Chair: Katrien Eloot | |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Nathalie Reinach - Hydrodynamic performance of a newly designed Rhine vessel integrated with various propulsion improvement devices for shallow water operations |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Momchil Terziev - Computational modelling of squat and resistance optimisation in fully confined water |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Refreshment break |
Session 6: Confined water - Chair: Evert Lataire | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Julien Dambrine - A one dimensional hydraulic model for confined navigation with a longitudinal variation of the hull |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Marta Ibarrondo - Integrating potential flow code for ship bank interaction at real time simulations |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Rafael Ros - Local hydrodynamic effects in narrow and shallow channels. It's importance in design and training |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 7: Ship bottom interaction - Chair: Marc Vantorre | |
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Yunxin Xu - Hydrodynamic influence of wavy seabed on ship-seabed interaction |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Jan Mense - Maneuvering of a model scale ship in natural fluid mud |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Marc Mansuy - Full scale manoeuvring tests with a Small, Flexible Automated, Zero-emission (SFAZ) vessel |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Refreshment break |
Session 8: Clean energy in shallow water - Chair: Weichao Shi | |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Eduardo Aoun Tannuri - Evaluating the impact of wind-assisted ship propulsion on the maneuverability of a Suezmax tanker |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Hironori Yasukawa - Application of the MMG-method to predict the propulsive performance of a bulk carrier with Flettner rotors |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Benjamin Kossman - Development of a push boat barge unit with an auxiliary shallow water propulsion system |
| 16:30 - 16:55 | Jakob Rzeszutko - A method to estimate emissions of an inland waterway ship maneuvering in restricted waters |
| 18:15 - 19:30 | Guided Tour & Beer Masterclass at Brewery The Halve Maan |
| 19:30 - 23:00 | Conference Dinner |
| 21 May 2025 (Wednesday) | |
| 09:30 - 09:35 | Open address |
Session 9: Waves in confined water - Chair: Tim Gourlay | |
| 09:35 - 10:00 | Guillaume Delefortrie - Approach to eliminate tank wall effects from open water manoeuvring models |
| 10:00 - 10:25 | Ina Teutsch - Influence of the return current and the primary wave of a passing ship on harbour hydrodynamics |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Clément Maubant - Ship-generated waves in confined waterways: laboratory and numerical study of flow features near sloping banks with different angles |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Refreshment break |
Session 10: Experimental fluid dynamics - Chair: Guillaume Delefortrie | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Junhoi Choi - Numerical PMM test in finite depth and application to MMG model of ship manoeuvering |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Takuya Ohmori - Viscous CFD Simulation of PMM tests in shallow water and in a canal |
| 12:05 - 12:30 | Yoshitaka Furukawa - Hydrodynamic forces acting on ship running in curved waterway with constant radii |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
Session 11: Ship manoeuvring - Chair: Zao-Jian Zou | |
| 13:30 - 13:55 | Yu He - Path following of an underactuated ship in restricted waters using CLOS and compensated LQR methods |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Donghyeong Ko - Kobayesian-SVR model for predicting ship maneuvering trajectories in deep and shallow water condition |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Ryusuke Okuda - Unberthing simulations of a ship using a first-order lag model to take the hydrodynamic memory effect into account |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Refreshment break |
Session 12: Wave induced motions - Chair: Hironori Yasukawa | |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Wim van der Molen - Computation of vessel motions in waves using forward speed free-surface green function |
| 15:25 - 15:50 | Tim Gourlay - Comparison of WAMIT with measured wave-induced motions of container ships and bulk carriers, using an adjustment for ship speed |
| 15:50 - 16:15 | Lourdes Pecharroman - Predictive simulation of onshore power supply requirements for ports |
| 16:15 - 16:25 | Closing words |
| 22 May 2025 (Thursday) | |
| 09:00 - 13:00 | Optional excursion: Flanders Maritime Laboratory |