Deep-Water Towing Tank

This facility is intended for towing and self-propelled tests of surface ship and submerged models in deep waters and near the surface, as well as for testing propellers and propulsion units under open-water conditions.

Tank dimensions: width: 15m depth: 7m length: 1324m Each part of the Tank is equipped with two towing carriages permitting to test ship models of up to 10m in length at speeds of up to 20m/s. The submersion depth limit is to 2m.

The Tank equipment allows measuring forces on ship hull and propulsor models, studying characteristics of non-uniform unsteady 3D flow in propulsor vicinities, simulating full-scale conditions of the flow around the hull with the help of polymer injections, conducting self-propelled model tests, testing models with artificial air cavities of their bottoms.