Early stage ship design and assessment continues to be a challenge for naval architects and ocean engineers. Furthermore, seakeeping at high speeds cannot be reliably calculated by traditional methods such as strip theory due to the hydrodynamic effects that occur in the semidisplacement region. Traditional methods have a vessels' response in seas calculated after most initial design decision have been cemented, making changes in design for improved seakeeping difficult at best. This paper puts forth a method for narrowing the design space for semidisplacement and displacement patrol craft operating at Froude numbers up to Fn= 1.0 and incorporating the vessels' response in seas into early stage design. Optimization of the design is done through the use of response surface methodology. Using a systems approach, a Patrol Craft Assessment Tool (PCAT) was created and tested to aide designers in the initial design and assessment of patrol craft of less than 90 m. PCAT is an MATLAB code that interfaces with Surface Wave Analysis (SWAN2) to incorporate resistance, engine selection, structures, seakeeping, and mission profiles into one design program to aide a designer.


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    Title :

    Integrating Seakeeping in the Design of Semi-Displacement and Displacement Monohulls


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    Publication date :

    2010


    Size :

    172 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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