CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 August 2009
Implementation Investments
Hyundai Heavy Industries: The World's Largest Shipbuilder Chooses STAR-CCM+
CD-adapco announced that Hyundai Heavy Industries, Co., Ltd. (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has adopted STAR-CCM+ for its fluid-structure interaction analysis of ships in waves. HHI chose CD-adapco’s flagship Computational Fluid Dynamics product because of its breadth of applicability and its ability to substantially reduce development timescales when deployed early in the design process.
We were looking for a commercial CFD product that offered complex geometry handling, minimal workload for surface preparation and meshing, and wide range of physical models for unsteady marine hydrodynamics.” said a senior research engineer at Hyundai Maritime Research Institute. “STAR-CCM+ is that tool. STAR-CCM+ is so easy to learn while very efficient and powerful in marine applications, especially when predicting vessel’s 6 degree-of-freedom motions as well as slamming impact loads in waves. HHI is also very satisfied with customer supports by CD-adapco Korea.”
David Vaughn, CD-adapco’s Director for the Marine Sector, is excited by this new relationship: “We are proud to name HHI in the growing list of leading industrial companies that have adopted STAR-CCM+ for hydrodynamic design analysis, and look forward to working with them further improving our software in order to meet the future needs of the maritime industry.”
CD-adapco has a 28 year history of providing flow, thermal and stress simulation technology to the marine industry. From the world's largest shipyard to suppliers of small components, the use of our technology has become a standard feature in the marine design and safety assurance process. CD-adapco's software is used by classification societies such as Lloyd's Register, Germanischer Lloyd, Det Norske Veritas and American Bureau of Shipping.
CD-adapco’s customers have been able to tackle some of the most demanding problems that the marine industry has to offer, allowing engineers and designers to predict how designs will react in operation, before budget is committed to the construction of expensive prototypes. Recent successes include: ship keeping, slamming and sloshing; wave and wind loading on offshore and underwater structures; oil and pollutant dispersions; cavitation control and propulsion system optimization.
About Hyundai Heavy Industries
HHI's Shipbuilding Division leads the global shipbuilding industry with a 15% share of the market. The Hyundai shipyard stretches over four kilometers along the coast of Mipo Bay in Ulsan, Korea. The Shipbuilding Division is capable of building all types of ships to meet various demands from its clients. It has nine large-scale dry docks with seven huge 'Goliath Cranes'. Since the shipyard's groundbreaking in 1972, HHI's Shipbuilding Division has garnered many awards and set many records within the shipbuilding industry.
The Division reached the 10 million DWT production mark, and reached the milestone of 20 million DWT in 1988, 30 million DWT in 1991, 40 million DWT in 1994, 50 million DWT in 1997, and 100 million DWT in 2005. The Division has delivered more than 1,383 ships to 244 ship-owners in 46 countries since 1972.
HHI's Special & Naval Shipbuilding Division, as a licensed National Defense Industrial Shipbuilder and engineering consultant for the Korean Navy, has the technology to design and build modern, reliable submarines, naval ships and auxiliary service vessels of various proven and advanced hull forms.
For more information please visit: http://english.hhi.co.kr/
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