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Manoeuvring & Ship Hydrodynamics

Free-running and captive model tests for turning, zig-zag, course-keeping and dynamic positioning.

112
Publications
1,737
Citations
2
Projects
1992–2025
Active years

About this area

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.

Captive tests — resistance, open-water propeller, PMM and planar-motion measurements — provide the coefficients behind manoeuvring simulations and autopilot tuning. Every campaign couples measured trajectories with numerical models so that a design decision rests on data rather than assumption.

Most cited publications

  1. How microplastics quantities increase with flood events? An example from Mersin Bay NE Levantine coast of Turkey

    Sedat Gündoğdu, Cem Çevik, Berna Ayat +2

    Environmental Pollution 2018 208 Citations

  2. Microplastics as emerging atmospheric pollutants: a review and bibliometric analysis

    Emine Can‐Güven

    Air Quality Atmosphere & Health 2020 112 Citations

  3. The 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea Tsunami: Post-Event Field Survey Along Turkish Coast

    Gözde Güney Doğan, Ahmet Cevdet Yalçıner, Yalçın Yüksel +6

    Pure and Applied Geophysics 2021 83 Citations Bronze

  4. Seafloor gas seeps and sediment failures triggered by the August 17, 1999 earthquake in the Eastern part of the Gulf of İzmit, Sea of Marmara, NW Turkey

    İsmail Kuşçu, Makoto Okamura, Hiromi Matsuoka +5

    Marine Geology 2005 70 Citations

  5. Factors controlling the morphological evolution of the Çanakkale Strait (Dardanelles, Turkey)

    Erkan Gökaşan, Mustafa Ergi̇n, Mustafa Özyalvaç +10

    Geo-Marine Letters 2007 54 Citations

  6. Late Quaternary sea-level change, sedimentation and neotectonics of the Gulf of Gökova: Southeastern Aegean Sea

    Atilla Uluğ, Muhammet Duman, Şükrü Ersoy +2

    Marine Geology 2005 52 Citations

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Projects

Ongoing Indoor Positioning and Living Digital Twin A new positioning system and a living digital twin for free-running tests in the wave basin. Completed Manoeuvring and DP Validation for a Research Vessel Completed model campaign validating the manoeuvring and dynamic-positioning behaviour of a research vessel.
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