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07 Jun 2022The 24th Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium is just around the corner and the Wolfson Unit has contributed to several papers to this year's event ranging from yacht performance prediction to the development of DynaRigs for commercial ships.
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07 Jun 2022The Boldrewood Tank facility is now fully operational.
It has the following main capabilities:
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07 Jun 2022The Wolfson Unit MTIA is pleased to announce that it will be collaborating with Crondall Energy to deliver an experimental model scale demonstrator of their patented design for supporting substation equipment offshore with funding from the Department fir Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
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07 Jun 2022The ACUA Ocean Clean Maritime Demonstrator project has gained supported by Innovate UK and the Department of Transport.
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29 Oct 2021On 6th September 2021 the new Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Fishing Vessels (MSN 1871 Amendment 2) came into force.
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01 Jul 2021The Wolfson Unit is pleased to announce the launch of HullScant 2, our new hull scantlings program for motor and sailing vessels under 24 metres. The program has been coded in accordance to the latest ISO standard 12215-5:2019.
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16 Jul 2020The Wolfson Unit was part of a collaborative team that has completed the first SPRINT funded project combining the use of wind tunnel testing and advanced data analysis techniques to support Bodyrocket in their development of an athlete aerodynamic drag measurement system.
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03 Jun 2020Etienne Gauvain will attend the INNOV’SAIL 2020 conference (online, 15-17 June 2020). He will be presenting a paper on the implementation of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) during wind tunnel testing of sailing yachts.
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14 Nov 2019The Wolfson Unit have recently assisted Macduff Shipyards with the optimisation of a proposed 34m stern trawler hull form. The design brief to Macduff was to improve on the fuel efficiency and seakeeping characteristics of the owner’s existing vessel.
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18 Oct 2019The Wolfson Unit delivered a paper on "Predicted fuel savings for a Flettner Rotor assisted tanker using computational fluid dynamics" at the RINA Wind Propulsion 2019 Conference.
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