High-Performance Computing in Maritime and Offshore Applications

Abstract

The development of supercomputing technologies has enabled a shift towards high-fidelity simulations that is used to complement physical modelling. At the Technology Centre for Offshore and Marine, Singapore (TCOMS), such simulations are used for high-resolution investigations into particular aspects of fluid-structure interactions in order to better understand and thereby predict the generation of important flow features or the complex hydrodynamic interactions between components onboard ships and floating structures. In addition, by building on the outputs of such simulations, data-driven models of actual physical systems are being developed, which in turn can be used as digital twins for real-time predictions of the behaviour and responses when subjected to complex real-world environmental loads. In this paper, examples of the high-resolution investigations, as well as the development of digital twins, are described and discussed.