| dc.description.abstract | Marine operations are rapidly coming in demand over de past years, and simulations are commonly run in order to estimate the system’s response in diverse scenarios before moving to a real domain. Open source simulation through a web-based design opens many windows for reinventing what nowadays is known as proprietary simulation software. This environment brings advantages such as rapid and collaborative development, wide compatibility with diverse operational systems, no need for powerful computers, friendly user interfaces, and it provides results quick to obtain and easy to share.
The scope of the project is to reuse and develop new objects in an existing open-source environment with structures and methods for vessel and marine operation simulation through a web-based platform by using JavaScript, an object-oriented programming language. The study will use these tools to build up and develop the current conceptual ship design library by modelling interaction between single bodies and creating new multibody models able to output different responses according to a range of various inputs, considering the different requirements and limitations for maritime operations.
By using a taxonomy for maritime operations simulations, different operations are chosen to simulate in an open source environment. In order to create case studies, these simulations are decomposed in single elements in order to understand their behaviour separately before making them interact with other elements to create a multibody. In the process, different disturbances are applied to the bodies according to the needs of the simulations and the level of complexity. The simulations are coded in JavaScript and visualized in a web environment in order to assess them. A discussion for the efficiency of the method and the utility of these simulations is carried. | |
