Maritime Technology Division

The Maritime Technology Division aims to:

• Provide an academic education regarding the design, construction, propulsion, functioning and maintaining of maritime structures such as ships and offshore constructions;
• Perform fundamental and applied scientific research in the maritime field, especially regarding the hydrodynamics of vessels and other floating constructions;
• Carry out scientific studies for and in collaboration with enterprises and public services in the maritime field.

With these activities the Division wants to support the (Belgian) maritime industry by consolidating, expanding and distributing relevant technical and scientific knowledge.

A non-exhaustive list of research topics are: Ships maneuvering in shallow and confined water, estuary vessels (inland ships at sea), dynamic mooring analysis, maneuvering simulations, foiling, aquaculture (seaweed, mussels), floating devices at sea (PV panels), carrying out experimental fluid dynamics in a towing tank. As long as it floats, we might be interested…