{"id":17,"date":"2018-02-07T21:08:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/?p=17"},"modified":"2018-02-07T21:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T21:08:51","slug":"17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/2018\/02\/07\/17\/","title":{"rendered":"Gate Rudder R&amp;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serkan posted up a great summary of some significant work undertaken in the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel on our internal engineering school bulletin:<\/p>\n<p>We have some exciting news to share about an innovative ship steering system known as a Gate Rudder (GR), invented by Prof Noriyuki Sasaki, a visiting professor at Newcastle University. Apart from functioning as an innovative steering system, the GR is an energy saving device that reduces fuel consumption as well as noise and vibration. A team of researchers in the marine group have developed and tested this unconventional rudder since 2015 in the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel. Furthermore, a dedicated manoeuvring software has been written and employed during the development process.<\/p>\n<p>The Gate Rudder system has recently been installed on a vessel in Japan. During manoeuvring and power-speed trials, the vessel showed impressive performance, with 14% power savings compared with a sister ship equipped with a conventional rudder. We will be involved in full-scale sea trials taking place in March 2018 in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows the gate rudder in action<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bDBtF-GytQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serkan posted up a great summary of some significant work undertaken in the Emerson Cavitation Tunnel on our internal engineering school bulletin: We have some exciting news to share about an innovative ship steering system known as a Gate Rudder (GR), invented by Prof Noriyuki Sasaki, a visiting professor at Newcastle University. Apart from functioning <a href='https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/2018\/02\/07\/17\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7045,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/simonbenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}