An Approach to Ship Water Ballast Management by Continuous Flow-through Method

An innovative concept is suggested for ship ballast water management using continuous flow-trough method in ships double bottom. The idea was to create a ship who will not carry ballast water containing invasive marine organisms from one destination to another but who will navigate through it keeping the necessary hydrostatic characteristics using always local ambient water. Authors have suggested the solution which can obtain satisfactory results based on tree-dimensional CFD simulations.