Hydrodynamics and Safety Issues in Modern Ship Design

Dear Colleagues,

The design of a ship is a complex process involving multiple aspects of naval architecture and marine electrical/electronic, mechanical, process, and ocean engineering; it is a system of systems. Therefore, ship design is a synthesis of those aspects, and proper methods should be employed to consider all these aspects, starting with the preliminary stages of a new design where information is limited. Such a process requires, among many other aspects, the development of adequate methodologies capable of making this synthesis, providing designers with the best compromised solutions between competing objectives and characteristics that determines optimal ship designs accounting for performance, functionality, safety, and cost, the customarily adopted design objectives. Undergoing a fast pace of change means that experiential knowledge becomes progressively less relevant as there is not enough time to gather any requisite experience. Therefore, engineering a design methodology based on first-principles analyses and tools in a way that provides the requisite fidelity to make the right choices at the early design stage is of the utmost importance.

In the present Special Issue, the focus is on ship performance aspects related to hydrodynamics and safety as the first key steps influencing the design of a modern ship. In this respect, accounting for new targets and regulations for emissions and fuel consumption, design implications, and solutions will be considered within the framework of second-generation intact stability criteria and potential loss of life from a damage stability perspective whilst accounting for comfort issues. Papers addressing the development and application of the aforementioned topics in the design of a ship are welcome.

Dr. Francesco Mauro
Prof. Dr. Dracos Vassalos
Dr. Barbara Rinauro
Guest Editors

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• ship design
• ship hydrodynamics
• safety
• intact stability
• damage stability
• crashworthiness
• data-driven processes
• surrogate models