HOPE Cloud is a tool based on NMRI's hull form database for simple estimation of the propulsion performance (power curves in calm water and in waves) of a ship from its basic information (main particulars: length, breadth, and draft). This tool has a wide range of uses, such as ship operation analysis, basic design and fleet planning.

HOPE Cloud enables companies and individuals without their own ship databases to measure the performance of their ships. It also enables companies with ship databases to measure the performance of their ships in conditions in which the ships have not been operated.

Ship performance estimation tool "HOPE Light" had been developed as Microsoft Excel-based application. For HOPE Cloud, the web interface and the cloud computing technique improve the user-friendliness (usable anywhere any time) and linkage with other cloud services.

HOPE Cloud Output Data

Detailed information of ship's hull (wetted surface area, optimal longitudinal position of the center of buoyancy, etc.)

Resistance and propulsion performance (power requirement, form factor, wave drag coefficient, self-propulsion factor)

Ship performance in actual seas (added resistance in waves (waves/winds), power increment, increment of ship speed reduction), etc.