Development of a SIMSMART Based, Progressive Flooding Design Tool

Abstract

While the Navy addresses the effects of progressive flooding in its design requirements, its limits for damaged stability are the results of World War II damage analysis and are evaluated under static conditions, without regard for shipboard damage control systems. This thesis develops a program which utilizes the SIMSMART flow analysis program in tandem with naval architecture analysis in Microsoft Excel, to simulate progressive flooding of a ship based on the varying specifics of a given scenario. This program can be used to aid designers in dynamic simulation of the flooding process not only to determine the adequacy of dewatering equipment, but also to establish a timeline, including naval architecture parameters, throughout the process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA361627

Entities

People

  • Thomas J. Anderson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Check Valves
  • Computer Programs
  • Control Systems
  • Damaged Stability
  • Dewatering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Floods
  • Flow Rate
  • Fluid Flow
  • Gate Valves
  • Hulls (Marine)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Naval Architecture
  • Naval Vessels (Combatant)
  • Simulations
  • Spreadsheet Software

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering