13 - 15 May 2009, Antwerp, Belgium
  
Overview
Organised by Flanders Hydraulics Research and Ghent University - Maritime Technology Division and in association with the Royal Institution of Naval Architects the International Conference on Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water: Bank Effects will offer researchers and pilots the possibility to discuss the latest developments in research and practice related to the ship behaviour in the vicinity of banks.
During the last decades a continuous increase of the main dimensions of certain ship types can be observed; this is especially the case for container carriers, RoRo vessels and LNG carriers. On the other hand, the dimensions of access channels, rivers, canals and ports frequented by these vessels often do not increase at the same rate. As a result, the behaviour of ships arriving at or departing from harbours will increasingly be influenced by waterways restrictions.
The asymmetric flow around a ship induced by the vicinity of banks causes pressure differences between port and starboard sides. As a result, a lateral force will act on the ship, mostly directed towards the closest bank, as well as a yawing moment pushing her bow towards the centre of the waterway.
This phenomenon, known as bank effect, depends on many parameters, such as bank shape, water depth, ship-bank distance, ship properties, ship speed and propeller action. A reliable prediction of bank effects is important to determine the limiting conditions in which a ship can safely navigate a waterway. However, the knowledge of the bank effects induced by the typical bank geometries is very limited.
A technical visit to Flanders Hydraulics Research http://www.watlab.be is planned on the third day of the conference.
Content
Papers are invited on the following topics:
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Experimental research
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Numerical modelling
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Simulations
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Hands on practice
All aspects in field of navigation along river banks (flooded, surface pierced, sloped)
Instructions for Authors
As the author of a full presented paper you will be asked to write a technical paper for the publication in the conference proceedings, as well as producing a short presentation of this work for the event itself. Please note that it is a condition of your paper being published in the proceedings that it is presented at the conference.
Please submit completed papers to
The copyright for all papers published in the proceedings will belong to the conference organisers, i.e. RINA/Ghent University/Flanders Hydraulics Research.
The deadline for submission of the final draft will be 16th March 2009. Please note that this is not a flexible deadline.
The paper should be submitted in Microsoft Word XP format (Note: NOT docx) following these Writers Guidelines.
Registration/ Further information
Please follow the link below to download the registration form:
http://www.bankeffects.ugent.be/International_Conference_on_ship_manoeuvring_in_shallow_and_confined_water_small.pdf
Further information about this conference can be found at www.bankeffects.ugent.be or please contact the conference secretariat:
Vicki Kruyniers
Flanders Hydraulics Research
Berchemlei 115
2140 Borgerhout
Belgium
Phone: +32.3.224.69.67, Fax: +32.3.224.60.36
Email:
Venue and Accommodation Information
The conference will take place at Stuurboord www.stuurboord.be in the city of Antwerp www.Antwerpen.be
The full address is:
Stuurboord / Hangar 26
Rijnkaai 96
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
Tel: 03/202.84.00
Getting to Antwerp:
- Antwerp is easily accessible by car with motorway connections from Brussels, Ghent, Liège and Rotterdam
- By plane from Brussels Airport, take a train to Brussels North Station (Brussel-Noord / Bruxelles-Nord), where you can take a train to Antwerpen-Centraal. You can buy a ticket for the whole trajectory in the Brussels Airport railway station. It usually takes about one hour to travel from Brussels Airport to Antwerpen. See the railway company website for timetables and voyage planning. Buses are also available from the airport to Antwerp
- There is a convenient airline connection between Antwerp Airport and London City Airport.
- There are also direct international trains from Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol) to Antwerpen-Centraal or from Paris.
For information on accommodation available in Antwerp please follow the links below:
http://www.antwerpen.be/eCache/BEN/16/394.html
or
http://www.bankeffects.ugent.be/conf_hotels.html
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