How to change the hull form best in order to squeeze out some percentages with regard to the total resistance? This is one of the major questions that has driven us very early as company and during the development of the FRIENDSHIP-Framework.

Is it ship design software? Absolutely, yes! We let you design your own parametric model of a ship hull, may it be a container carrier, bulker, tanker or a yacht. Here, the target is automated shape control. Smart automatic generation and analysis of design alternatives that show smooth shapes are wanted. Furthermore, only feasible ship hulls shall be generated and analyzed by CFD. This also includes the consideration of constraints, e.g. inertias, keeping the center of buoyancy or even manufacturing constraints.

Note that the FRIENDSHIP-Framework is also a complete 3D design suite for marine propellers including individual definition of parametric profiles and radial functions!

Example Applications

• Ship hull design and optimization
• Propeller design including nozzles etc.
• Design and optimization of energy-saving devices