13 - 15 May 2009, Antwerp, Belgium SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
  
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:
o Experimental research
o Numerical modelling
o Simulations
o Hands on practice
o All aspects in field of navigation along river banks (flooded, surface pierced, sloped)
Call for Papers / Register Interest
If you wish to submit an abstract for this event, please send a short abstract (250 words) by 14th November 2008 via email to
You can download this second announcement and call for papers below:
Ship Manoeuvring in Shallow and Confined Water: Bank Effects -CFP
Authors who's abstracts have been accepted will be notified by the 19th December 2008.
The deadline for submission of the final draft will be 16th March 2009
Further information about this conference can be found at www.bankeffects.ugent.be or please contact the conference secretariat:
Mrs. De Grauwe Karine Berchemlei
Flanders Hydraulics Research
115 2140 Antwerp
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
Getting to Antwerp:
o Antwerp is easily accessible by car with motorway connections from Brussels, Ghent, Liège and Rotterdam
o 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 http://www.brail.be/main/E/index.php for timetables and voyage planning.
o There are also direct international trains from Amsterdam Airport (Schiphol) to Antwerpen-Centraal.
For information on accommodation available in Antwerp please follow the link below:
http://www.antwerpen.be/eCache/BEN/16/440.html
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