Mitsui Zosen launches ship design software

Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen) has launched NeoShip, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation system. The company, a subsidiary of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES), says it is Japan?s first commercial ship design software package. NeoShip, which is on sale at a price of around $47,000, is designed to operate on a standard PC. The company plans to sell 30 licenses in the first three years. The package is designed to retain and evaluate data produced in water tank experiments and any subsequent analyses. It can process this data analysis in half a day. Manual evaluation can take up to two months. It allows even inexperienced engineers to carry out fluid dynamics analysis, says Akishima. Akishima Laboratories has a long tradition of operating sophisticated facilities including specialised test water tanks, a cavitation tunnel and a low-speed wind tunnel. These are used for testing many types of ships, propellers, offshore structures and bridges.