Model testing and design validation for every marine platform
YTU-MARINE is the maritime research centre of Yıldız Technical University. We run physical model tests in a wave basin for ships, autonomous marine vehicles, floating structures and offshore systems — measuring manoeuvring, seakeeping and six-degree-of-freedom motion in regular and irregular seas.
Our mission is to turn full-scale marine engineering questions into measured, repeatable evidence. Every test is documented with its method, calibration and uncertainty; the results feed design development, performance analysis and validation of numerical models. We work with academia, public institutions, the defence industry, shipyards and design offices — and the basin is open to external test campaigns.
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Research areas
We study how a hull actually behaves on the water, not only how it looks in a drawing. Free-running models are released in the basin to measure turning circles, zig-zag manoeuvres, course-keeping and dynamic-positioning (DP) behaviour under controlled conditions.
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In regular and irregular waves we measure how a vessel or floating structure responds: heave, pitch, roll, accelerations and the loads induced by the sea. Tests can be driven to high sea states, so behaviour near operating limits is observed rather than extrapolated.
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Autonomy is validated before it is trusted. At model scale we test guidance, control and collision-avoidance algorithms for uncrewed surface vessels, autonomous underwater vehicles and remote-operated craft in realistic wave and current conditions.
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Floating platforms, wind support structures, mooring systems and offshore operations are tested in scale model to study motions, mooring loads and station-keeping in waves and current.
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Physical modelling is used to answer questions that computation cannot yet close: slamming, green water, extreme responses and the interaction between hull, propeller and appendages.
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Events
Open day: visit the YTU-MARINE wave basin
A guided visit for industry, academia and public institutions — a look at the basin, the positioning system and the digital twin.
Events
Workshop for shipyards and design offices: from model test to design decision
A practical workshop on planning a test campaign, reading the results and using them in design reviews.
People behind the work
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Taner Coşgun
Director, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Yıldız Technical University
10 Publications
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Ahmet Yurtseven Deputy Director, Marine Engineering Operations, Yıldız Technical University 6 Publications
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Cihan Şahin Deputy Director, Civil Engineering, Yıldız Technical University 24 Publications
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Ümit Güneş
Board Member, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Yıldız Technical University
2 Publications
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Barış Sevim
Board Member, Civil Engineering, Yıldız Technical University
Work with us
Doctoral places, visiting fellowships, institutional partnerships and open calls — the four ways most collaborations start.