Platform Design

What Is It?

The Platform Design Program is a multi-pronged eff ort intended to invigorate the naval engineering discipline and improve the design process.

 

How Does It Work?

It focuses research on seven key S&T areas in naval engineering (ship design tools, hydrodynamics, advanced hull designs, etc.), challenges top universities and their most talented faculty and students to address difficult Navy research issues, expands naval engineering research on platform synthesis based on more physics-based analysis tools, and is exploring the current state of the art with respect to the ship design process, including computational and organizational methods to improve that process.

 

What Will It Accomplish?

It will ensure the continuing presence of a strong naval engineering discipline and expand and improve upon the naval engineering ship design knowledge base and analysis capabilities.

 

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has a long history of involvement in maintaining the naval engineering discipline that ensures a steady supply of knowledgeable personnel and appropriate analysis tools to advance the state of the art of platform design, particularly in the area of advanced and innovative ship design concepts.

This involvement has been manifested in sponsoring research at the university level over a range of critical naval engineering S&T areas. This includes sponsorship of the Center for Innovation in Ship Design at NSWC Carderock, and development of university-industry-government laboratory consortia that focus on naval engineering relevant S&T to sustain an infrastructure for innovative ship building concepts.

ONR’s Platform Design S&T program is focused on seven critical areas necessary to maintaining a robust naval engineering capability. These include ship design tools, ship structural materials, hydrodynamics, advanced hull designs, ship propulsion, ship automation, and systems integration.

 

Research Opportunities:

  • Developing physics-based tools to handle model order across multidisciplinary, vast temporal, spatial, and application ranges
  • Ensuring system optimization in the design process versus domain specific or local optimization.
  • Uncertainty and the variability of inputs and results. This includes dealing with uncertainties in discrete events and estimating uncertainty at every point in a system when the uncertainty may be dynamic and a cumulative result of many incremental uncertainties.

Kelly Cooper

(703) 696-0869

kelly.cooper1@navy.mil

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