About ten years ago the proper ventilation of perishable goods was an issue for some ship owners and operators. Many reefer cargo hold ventilation systems were designed with a weak performance and the cooling units of containers failed during transport due to intake temperatures above the cooling units maximum design temperature. This problem has been solved for many container ships due to the design of ventilation systems according to new regulations, which take into account conservative fresh air volume rates.
computing ship motions and loads
wake analysis
monitoring model tank tests
documentation review

We discovered that a lot of technical reports exists, wherein CFD analyses are not well documented and/ or do not show reliable results. Often clients do not have the in house expertise to correctly interpret the presented CFD data in detail. Many clients are swayed by the ‘colourful pictures’ to accept the provided results without questioning.