SYROCO EFFICIENTSHIP DIGITAL TWIN BASED PLATFORM
Build and run virtual representations of real-world ships to simulate their efficiency and performance in a variety of configurations, weather and sea conditions.
TWIN CREATION
Syroco EfficientShip provides a set of tools to build physics-driven models of each component of the ship, based on a combination of CAD design, CFD simulation, parametric equations and/or actual IoT/operational data.
Created using machine learning and big data processing, these mathematical models (also called response surfaces) are at the core of the physics solver engine of Syroco EfficientShip.
The digital twin itself is built through the assembly of models, selected from the customer’s library or from a marketplace. Models are of course reusable across multiple twins.
SHIP COMPANION
Syroco EfficientShip builds a baseline and tracks performance to provide guidance during operations, for onboard efficiency and safety. The digital twin acts as a virtual baseline that sails in parallel with the actual ship, easily tracking the ship and her performance, and comparing actual data to the digital twin as a reference.
- Provides guidance and advice on how to improve efficiency and performance for each voyage.
- Tests scenarios to update operating profile based on actual conditions.
FLEET PERFORMANCE
Using advanced scenario simulation capabilities, Syroco EfficientShip creates sets of operating conditions for an individual ship or a fleet, to predict and evaluate performance under these scenarios - each being composed of a path and a set of variable operating parameters.
The path itself is based on a maritime route, an operating schedule, and forecasted or historical weather on the route. Syroco EfficientShip can automatically fetch weather data from various databases, and interfaces with weather-driven navigation software that is used by the operators.
Variable operating parameters can be freely determined by the user among the parameters available for each digital twin, in order to test different configurations.
Results from scenario simulations are immediately available through Reporting and Analytics.
DESIGN OPTIMISATION
In the research lab or design office, Syroco EfficientShip optimises the design and operating parameters of the ship, for a new build or a refit. The user selects targets, chooses a set of “free” parameters, and lets the physics solver engine determine optimal values for parameters and targets, testing advanced operating scenarios to determine the best configuration for the ship.
For example:
- Targets: minimise carbon emissions and ship roll
- Free parameters: hull length, breadth and draft, propulsion plant energy mix strategy
IOT INTEGRATION
Using advanced scenario simulation capabilities, Syroco EfficientShip creates sets of operating conditions for an individual ship or a fleet, and evaluates performance under these scenarios - each being composed of a path and a set of variable operating parameters.
The path itself is based on a maritime route, an operating schedule, and forecasted or historical weather on the route. Syroco EfficientShip can automatically fetch weather data from various databases, and interfaces with weather-driven navigation software that is used by the operators.
REPORTING & ANALYTICS
Powerful data analytics and reporting through customisable graphs and dashboards is provided, leveraging the Tableau online data visualisation and analytics platform.
Syroco EfficientShip provides dashboards and reports from scenarios simulations and creates operating baselines, used for performance measurement of individual ships and of fleets.
COMPONENTS & MODELS
Several models are provided to get started with Syroco EfficientShip. Users can create many more models, in order to address the specific aspects and components of the ship they need to represent.
Hull
- Call water hull model
- Swell and sea waves hull model
- Bulb model
- Hull fouling model
- Hull & cargo aero model
- Fairing aero model
- Ballast model
Wind propulsion devices
- Rigid sail model
- Reefable sail model
- Inflatable wing model
- Asymmetric wing model
- Kite wing model
- Flettner rotor model
- Aspirated profile model
Engine propulsion & energy production/consumption
- Diesel thruster model
- LNG thruster model
- Variable pitch propeller model
- Boiler model
- Hotel consumption model
Appendices
- Rudder model
- Stabiliser model
- Daggerboard model
Interaction
- Ship-sail interaction model
- Sail-sail interaction model
- Rudder-propeller interaction model
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