This book contains selected papers from the Fourth International
Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, held at
Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in
September 2011.
Nowadays, computational methods are an essential tool of engineering,
which includes a major field of interest in marine applications, such as
the maritime and offshore industries and engineering challenges related
to the marine environment and renewable energies. The 2011 Conference
included 8 invited plenary lectures and 86 presentations distributed
through 10 thematic sessions that covered many of the most relevant
topics of marine engineering today. This book contains 16 selected
papers from the Conference that cover "CFD for Offshore Applications",
"Fluid-Structure Interaction", "Isogeometric Methods for Marine
Engineering", "Marine/Offshore Renewable Energy", "Maneuvering and
Seakeeping", "Propulsion and Cavitation" and "Ship Hydrodynamics". The
papers were selected with the help of the recognized experts that
collaborated in the organization of the thematic sessions of the
Conference, which guarantees the high quality of the papers included in
this book.