Nautical Technopole

Research & Design
Advanced Tools for Yachting

Nautical Technopole is a research facility which works in the field of advanced marine applications, design and materials technology, gathers University of Bologna’s most advanced skills; it started in 2010 thanks to the unified efforts of Emilia-Romagna Region, Province of Ravenna, Municipality of Ravenna and University of Bologna.
Nautical Technopole thanks to its disciplined approach to innovation, integrate basic and applied researches in the main nautical disciplines and naval engineering through collaboration with private clients and industrial partners, working as an extensions of their in-house R&D department. Combining the best academic research with business ethics, staff members collaborate across many fields, sparking new ideas and solution in marine applications.

Nautical Technopole takes also part in several research projects funded or co-funded by national and international institutions and is involved in various consultancy activities.

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Advanced methods for marine design

Nautical Technopole implements a research-level knowledge together with the use of modern techniques named Design for X (CAD, CAM, CAE, etc). Simulation Based Design (SBD) forces methodologically rigorous design strategies, together with a clear identification of the objectives and problem constraints, leading to the best feasible solutions.

Structural Simulations

Large displacements and deformations, together with nonlinearities and anisotropy due to composite materials, are frequently problems in marine design, as it is the determination of the structural dynamic response to vibrational loads. All these issues can be handled by our staff through the use of standard industrial applications or by the creation of customized software to develop new constitutive models and implement them in the adopted numerical codes.

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) activities are carried out using RANSE methods, Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), Advanced Vortex Methods (AVM) and variations to the traditional potential methods. The simulations are extended to Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), acoustic radiation with special attention to the impact of motor boats on marine environment and to the comfort on board.

Research & Design
Advanced Tools for Yachting

Tecnopolo di Ravenna

30 Feet Day-Sailer

Econaut

3D scanning for Quality Check

Composites and Retractile Nautical Powertrain

Computational Fluid Dynamics for Hydrofoils

Thermoplastic composites

Advanced Foiling for Single Hull

Data Acquisition System for Performance Optimization

Laboratory