EFFICIENT TRANSCUTANEOUS ENERGY TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS--FE

Not Available The primary objective of the proposed effort is to demonstrate the feasibility of an integrated design process for the development, validation, accreditation, and integration of fluid dynamic and hydronumeric computer-based ship design tools. This will include the integration of tools that can be applied by the commercial maritime industry, as well as DOD ship and small boat design contractors, into a comprehensive design process. Existing ship design tools will be integrated at one common on-line site using an easily upgradable, open system architecture approach. While the current methodology provides adequate designs, it is a time consuming and expensive process due to the lack of design process integration. This process combines different design practices, each of which addresses different performance objectives, to produce an overall system design. For each process or design practice, there are different software codes and, in general, these different codes were not meant to interact with each other. This fragmentation of the current design process increases the time and cost of ship design, development, and analysis.