1. Biographical presentation from Raimo Hämäläinen:
Mr. Raimo Hämäläinen:
Mr. Raimo Hämäläinen graduated in year 1980 in Naval Architecture
(B.Sc) at Turku Institute of Technology.
At the beginning he worked as Designer at the Steel Drawing Office and
then several years as Hydrodynamicist in Theory Department at Wärtsilä
Marine Inc.
Since 1991 he has been Head of Hydrodynamics at Aker Finnyards Turku
(today Meyer Turku, Finland). The area of responsibility: hydrodynamics
for ships and projects, separate R&D works inside company and
internationally.
He finished his study in 1992 in Information Technology (M.Sc) at
Technical University of Tampere. His Thesis handled subject “Hull Form
Design Program in Project Work”.
Raimo has taken care of Hydrodynamics: more than 70 New Buildings,
several hundred projects and many R&D developments.
Raimo hasn been member of SNAME from year 1998.
Raimo has been the teacher for Ship Hydrodynamics from year 2008 in
Professional High School in Turku.
Raimo has been the hydrodynamic teacher for some Finnish companies
during year 2013 to improve their hydrodynamic capabilities.
PUBLICATIONS (outside Finland only):
1995 Practical Ship Design (PRADS) in Soul South Korea. “New
Generation of 135 000 m3
LNG Carriers: Details of a Hydrodynamical
Optimisation Process”.
1998 The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in
San Diego USA. “Hydrodynamic Development For a Large Fast
Monohull Passenger Ferry”.

2. 2000 International Maritime Association of Mediterranean (IMAM) in
Naples Italy. ”Wave Damping Aftbody Revolutionize Aftbody Design
For all Types Of Fast Vessels”.
2001 Practical Design of Ships and Other Floating Structures in
Shanghai, China. “Trible Pod Propulsion in the World’s Largest Ever
Cruise Liner”.
2002 International Maritime Association of the Mediterranean (IMAM)
in Crete, Greek. “A Most Effective Way to Optimize Hull Form by Using
Parametric Hull Definition and CFD”.
2003 The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in
San Francisco USA. “Wave Damping Aftbody with Hybrid Podded
Propulsors”.
2005 The “Highest comfort class” design for ‘M/S Color Fantasy’, the
world’s largest ever cruise-liner with car-deck. Lloyd’s Noise&Vibration
conference, London, UK.
2006 The “Highest comfort class” design for ‘M/S Color Fantasy’, the
world’s largest ever cruise-liner with car-deck.. The Motor Ship
propulsion conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008 The high comfort class passenger ferry design for optimum wake.
SNAME Greek conference.
2009 The high comfort class appendage design for cruise liners, ferries
and ropax vessels. Symposium on Marine Propulsion 09, Trondheim,
Norway.
2013 Energy saving possibilities in twin or triple screw propeller cruise
liners. Symposium on Marine Propulsion 2013, Tasmania.