Decision Support Tool for FPSO Floater Selection

Public version - Challenging offshore fields in harsh environments and poor infrastructure call for sophisticated Floating Production Storage and Offloading solutions. Conventional conversions provided the bulk of these platforms in the past, but their limits are pushed as demand for larger facilities and capacity increases the value of new...

Interactive evolutionary concept exploration in preliminary ship design

Preliminary ship design (or early stage design in US terminology) is the very first step in designing a new ship. In this stage ship designers attempt to find an affordable balance of the future owner's (customer or operator) ambitions and operational needs. This balance is then translated into more tangible design requirements. However, the...

Interactive steering of an optimisation based ship synthesis model for concept exploration