Download or read book Design Space Exploration and Optimization Using Modern Ship Design Tools written by Adam Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Naval Architects use a variety of computer design tools to explore feasible options for clean sheet ship designs. Under the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) has created computer tools for ship design and analysis purposes. This paper presents an overview of some of these tools, specifically the Advanced Ship and Submarine Evaluation Tool (ASSET) version 6.3 and the Integrated Hull Design Environment (IHDE). This paper provides a detailed explanation of a ship design using these advanced tools and presents methods for optimizing the performance of the hullform, the selection of engines for fuel efficiency, and the loading of engines for fuel efficiency. The detailed ship design explores the design space given a set of specific requirements for a cruiser-type naval vessel. The hullform optimization technique reduces a ships residual resistance by using both ASSET and IHDE in a Design of Experiments (DoE) approach to reaching an optimum solution. The paper will provide a detailed example resulting in a 12% reduction in total ship drag by implementing this technique on a previously designed hullform. The reduction of drag results in a proportional reduction in the amount of fuel used to push the ship through the water. The engine selection optimization technique uses MATLAB to calculate the ideal engines to use for fuel minimization. For a given speed-time or power-time profile, the code will evaluate hundreds of combinations of engines and provide the optimum engine combination and engine loading for minimizing the total fuel consumption. This optimization has the potential to reduce fuel consumption of current naval warships by upwards of 30%.

Download or read book A Holistic Approach to Ship Design written by Apostolos Papanikolaou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a holistic approach to ship design and its optimisation for life-cycle operation. It deals with the scientific background of the adopted approach and the associated synthesis model, which follows modern computer aided engineering (CAE) procedures. It integrates techno-economic databases, calculation and multi-objective optimisation modules and s/w tools with a well-established Computer-Aided Design (CAD) platform, along with a Virtual Vessel Framework (VVF), which will allow virtual testing before the building phase of a new vessel. The resulting graphic user interface (GUI) and information exchange systems enable the exploration of the huge design space to a much larger extent and in less time than is currently possible, thus leading to new insights and promising new design alternatives. The book not only covers the various stages of the design of the main ship system, but also addresses relevant major onboard systems/components in terms of life-cycle performance to offer readers a better understanding of suitable outfitting details, which is a key aspect when it comes the outfitting-intensive products of international shipyards. The book disseminates results of the EU funded Horizon 2020 project HOLISHIP.

Download or read book Design Space Exploration and Resource Management of Multi Many Core Systems written by Amit Kumar Singh and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing demand of processing a higher number of applications and related data on computing platforms has resulted in reliance on multi-/many-core chips as they facilitate parallel processing. However, there is a desire for these platforms to be energy-efficient and reliable, and they need to perform secure computations for the interest of the whole community. This book provides perspectives on the aforementioned aspects from leading researchers in terms of state-of-the-art contributions and upcoming trends.

Download or read book Marine Design XIII Volume 2 written by Pentti Kujala and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 2 of a 2-volume set. Marine Design XIII collects the contributions to the 13th International Marine Design Conference (IMDC 2018, Espoo, Finland, 10-14 June 2018). The aim of this IMDC series of conferences is to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline. The focus is on key design challenges and opportunities in the area of current maritime technologies and markets, with special emphasis on: • Challenges in merging ship design and marine applications of experience-based industrial design • Digitalisation as technological enabler for stronger link between efficient design, operations and maintenance in future • Emerging technologies and their impact on future designs • Cruise ship and icebreaker designs including fleet compositions to meet new market demands To reflect on the conference focus, Marine Design XIII covers the following research topic series: •State of art ship design principles - education, design methodology, structural design, hydrodynamic design; •Cutting edge ship designs and operations - ship concept design, risk and safety, arctic design, autonomous ships; •Energy efficiency and propulsions - energy efficiency, hull form design, propulsion equipment design; •Wider marine designs and practices - navy ships, offshore and wind farms and production. Marine Design XIII contains 2 state-of-the-art reports on design methodologies and cruise ships design, and 4 keynote papers on new directions for vessel design practices and tools, digital maritime traffic, naval ship designs, and new tanker design for arctic. Marine Design XIII will be of interest to academics and professionals in maritime technologies and marine design.

Download or read book Multi objective Robust Early Stage Ship Design Optimisation Under Uncertainty written by Alexandros Priftis and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipping industry has become very competitive, while a lot of research is carried out in the shipbuilding world to investigate possible ways to improve ship design and create efficient and economical ships. Technological improvements allow the detailed exploration of design space and assist the theory of optimisation in becoming a vital part of ship design. Advanced software tools are available to designers and researchers to expand their design optimisation methodologies and introduce not only more efficient techniques, but also more robust approaches to ship design.The topic of ship design optimisation has been investigated by numerous researchers, who have established structured methodologies which can be applied to real case studies and produce efficient solutions to the ship design problem. However, the definition of the ship design problem changes often due to the introduction of new ship types, international regulations and technological improvements.This thesis contributes to the aforementioned developments with regard to the ship design optimisation problem. The mission is to develop a methodology for a multi-objective robust early stage ship design optimisation under uncertainty. Several aspects of ship design are incorporated, taking into account the holistic ship design model. Various performance indicators are used as measures of merit to evaluate the response of possible solutions to the problem. New regulations are incorporated to the optimisation problem, investigating their impact on its solution. In addition, uncertainty quantification is applied throughout the proposed methodology, while its effect on the ship design optimisation problem is examined.

Download or read book Marine Design XIII Volume 1 written by Pentti Kujala and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 1 of a 2-volume set. Marine Design XIII collects the contributions to the 13th International Marine Design Conference (IMDC 2018, Espoo, Finland, 10-14 June 2018). The aim of this IMDC series of conferences is to promote all aspects of marine design as an engineering discipline. The focus is on key design challenges and opportunities in the area of current maritime technologies and markets, with special emphasis on: • Challenges in merging ship design and marine applications of experience-based industrial design • Digitalisation as technological enabler for stronger link between efficient design, operations and maintenance in future • Emerging technologies and their impact on future designs • Cruise ship and icebreaker designs including fleet compositions to meet new market demands To reflect on the conference focus, Marine Design XIII covers the following research topic series: •State of art ship design principles - education, design methodology, structural design, hydrodynamic design; •Cutting edge ship designs and operations - ship concept design, risk and safety, arctic design, autonomous ships; •Energy efficiency and propulsions - energy efficiency, hull form design, propulsion equipment design; •Wider marine designs and practices - navy ships, offshore and wind farms and production. Marine Design XIII contains 2 state-of-the-art reports on design methodologies and cruise ships design, and 4 keynote papers on new directions for vessel design practices and tools, digital maritime traffic, naval ship designs, and new tanker design for arctic. Marine Design XIII will be of interest to academics and professionals in maritime technologies and marine design.

Download or read book Accounting for Uncertainty written by Priya P. Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers design for an inherently uncertain world. In the early stages of design processes, they commonly account for such uncertainty either by manually choosing a specific worst-case and multiplying uncertain parameters with safety factors or by using Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the probabilistic boundaries in which their design is feasible. The safety factors of this first practice are determined by industry and organizational standards, providing a limited account of uncertainty; the second practice is time intensive, requiring the development of separate testing infrastructure. In theory, robust optimization provides an alternative, allowing set based conceptualizations of uncertainty to be represented during model development as optimizable design parameters. The hybrid intelligent design perspective, considering the ways in which humans and computers interact as teams in order to solve engineering design problems, prompts the question of how these theoretical benefits translate to design practice. In this work, we analyzed present use of geometric programs as design models in the aerospace industry to determine the current state-of-the-art, then conducted a human-subjects experiment to investigate how various mathematical representations of uncertainty affect design space exploration. We found that robust optimization led to far more efficient explorations of possible designs with only small differences in an experimental participant’s understanding of their model. Specifically, the Pareto frontier of a typical participant using robust optimization left less performance “on the table” across various levels of risk than the very best frontiers of participants using industry-standard practices. This analysis perspective can be applied broadly to provide insight on how design concept generation is affected by the inclusion of computational tools.

Download or read book Increased Confidence in Concept Design Through Trade Space Exploration and Multiobjective Optimization written by Ryan Glenn Odegard and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing size, complexity and demands of engineering systems requires paying greater attention to the initial design of the system concept. To improve the process by which concept design is carried out, this thesis develops an Engineering Framework for Concept Development. The Engineering Framework is applicable to a diverse range of concept design problems. It helps guide the otherwise haphazard process of the early stages of design to provide confidence that the chosen concept is superior to a large set of alternatives. Accompanying the Engineering Framework is a collection of tools which aid the designer in analyzing different options. Two tools in particular are demonstrated for their mutually beneficial characteristics: 1) Object-Process Network is used to explore the full space of options, revealing the relationships among design decisions and system performance, and 2) a particle.swarm optimization algorithm is implemented to efficiently search through the design space. The use of such an optimization algorithm becomes especially advantageous when higher fidelity models are included in the analysis because it is able to quickly identify the most favorable families of designs. The complementary approaches of exploring the entire trade space and then efficiently searching for the best groups of designs are shown to provide valuable insights in concept design problems. Two case study examples are presented as applications of the Engineering Framework and design tools. The first is an air-launched sounding rocket propulsion system design. The second is the design of a responsive disaster monitoring system. In each case, the use of the Engineering Framework and concept design tools give the designer increased confidence that quality concept designs have been identified.

Download or read book Modeling and Optimization in Space Engineering written by Giorgio Fasano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a selection of advanced case studies that address a substantial range of issues and challenges arising in space engineering. The contributing authors are well-recognized researchers and practitioners in space engineering and in applied optimization. The key mathematical modeling and numerical solution aspects of each application case study are presented in sufficient detail. Classic and more recent space engineering problems – including cargo accommodation and object placement, flight control of satellites, integrated design and trajectory optimization, interplanetary transfers with deep space manoeuvres, low energy transfers, magnetic cleanliness modeling, propulsion system design, sensor system placement, systems engineering, space traffic logistics, and trajectory optimization – are discussed. Novel points of view related to computational global optimization and optimal control, and to multidisciplinary design optimization are also given proper emphasis. A particular attention is paid also to scenarios expected in the context of future interplanetary explorations. Modeling and Optimization in Space Engineering will benefit researchers and practitioners working on space engineering applications. Academics, graduate and post-graduate students in the fields of aerospace and other engineering, applied mathematics, operations research and optimal control will also find the book useful, since it discusses a range of advanced model development and solution techniques and tools in the context of real-world applications and new challenges.

Download or read book Ship Design written by Apostolos Papanikolaou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with ship design and in particular with methodologies of the preliminary design of ships. The book is complemented by a basic bibliography and five appendices with useful updated charts for the selection of the main dimensions and other basic characteristics of different types of ships (Appendix A), the determination of hull form from the data of systematic hull form series (Appendix B), the detailed description of the relational method for the preliminary estimation of ship weights (Appendix C), a brief review of the historical evolution of shipbuilding science and technology from the prehistoric era to date (Appendix D) and finally a historical review of regulatory developments of ship's damage stability to date (Appendix E). The book can be used as textbook for ship design courses or as additional reading for university or college students of naval architecture courses and related disciplines; it may also serve as a reference book for naval architects, practicing engineers of related disciplines and ship officers, who like to enter the ship design field systematically or to use practical methodologies for the estimation of ship's main dimensions and of other ship main properties and elements of ship design.

Download or read book Multi Criteria Analysis in Naval Ship Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous optimization problems involve systems with multiple and often contradictory criteria. Such contradictory criteria have been an issue for marine/naval engineering design studies for many years. This problem becomes more important when one considers novel ship types with very limited or no operational record. A number of approaches have been proposed to overcome these multiple criteria design optimization problems. This Thesis follows the Parameter Space Investigation (PSI) technique to address these problems. The PSI method is implemented with a software package called MOVI (Multi-criteria Optimization and Vector Identification). Two marine/naval engineering design optimization models were investigated using the PSI technique along with the MOVI software. The first example was a bulk carrier design model which was previously studied with other optimization methods. This model, which was selected due to its relatively small dimensionality and the availability of existing studies, was utilized in order to demonstrate and validate the features of the proposed approach. A more realistic example was based on the "MIT Functional Ship Design Synthesis Model" with a greater number of parameters, criteria, and functional constraints. A series of optimization studies conducted for this model demonstrated that the proposed approach can be implemented in a naval ship design environment and can lead to a large design parameter space exploration with minimum computational effort.

Download or read book Use of Optimization for Design Space Exploration During Preliminary System Design written by Shawn Collins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Research on Ship Design and Optimization Based on Simulation Based Design SBD Technique written by Bao-Ji Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ship optimization design is critical to the preliminary design of a ship. With the rapid development of computer technology, the simulation-based design (SBD) technique has been introduced into the field of ship design. Typical SBD consists of three parts: geometric reconstruction; CFD numerical simulation; and optimization. In the context of ship design, these are used to alter the shape of the ship, evaluate the objective function and to assess the hull form space respectively. As such, the SBD technique opens up new opportunities and paves the way for a new method for optimal ship design. This book discusses the problem of optimizing ship’s hulls, highlighting the key technologies of ship optimization design and presenting a series of hull-form optimization platforms. It includes several improved approaches and novel ideas with significant potential in this field

Download or read book Multidisciplinary Optimization of Naval Ship Design and Mission Effectiveness written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Engineous Software STTR Team, including team members from Northrop Grumman, Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Elon University; proposed at the outset of the project that it could develop an integrated Multi-disciplinary Optimization (MDO) system of naval ship design and mission effectiveness. Specifically, the team intended to use a ship model of interest to the Navy in an effort to demonstrate that disparate ship analysis tools could be integrated under a single framework and automated. This integrated, automated system would allow its users to measure ship performance and effectiveness, as well as accounting for uncertainty in those measurements, through design exploration techniques, such as optimization, design of experiments (DOE), and quality engineering analysis (e.g. Monte Carlo analysis). The primary struggle on the project was acquiring analysis models to use in the MDO system. The time required to obtain the models, unfortunately, limited the amount of analysis the team was able to perform. However, once the models were obtained, the team was able to quickly integrate them and show the power and flexibility of the MDO system. The results showed that the system was able to quickly apply numerous exploration techniques, including the Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm specifically developed for the STTR, to the integrated models. Hundreds of ship designs were evaluated in the pursuit of an optimum design; while taking into account uncertainty. A measured improvement of 6% in lifecycle cost was calculated for an optimization analysis. It was also found that while introducing uncertainty in the analysis that the lifecycle cost was perturbed by only a maximum variation of 1%.

Download or read book Designs on Space written by Richard Wagner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at the next generation of NASA space probes and missions covers the International Space Station, the manned mission to Mars, and numerous unmanned missions to the outer planets and their moons.

Download or read book Towards Green Marine Technology and Transport written by Carlos Guedes Soares and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards Green Marine Technology and Transport covers recent developments in marine technology and transport. The book brings together a selection of papers reflecting fundamental areas of recent research and development in the fields of ship hydrodynamics, marine structures, ship design, shipyard technology, ship machinery, maritime transportation,

Download or read book Special Issue Design Space Exploration and Optimisation in Product Development written by G. Gary Wang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: