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Cruise Ship Preliminary Design: The Influence Of Design Features On Profitability, Justin Epstein
Cruise Ship Preliminary Design: The Influence Of Design Features On Profitability, Justin Epstein
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This thesis provides a means to estimate the physical and performance characteristics of a preliminary cruise ship design. The techniques utilized to estimate these characteristics are showcased in the user-friendly interface known as the Cruise Ship Analysis Tool (CSAT). Using the CSAT, the implications that design feature decisions in the preliminary design stage have on a cruise ship’s profitability is analyzed. Then, the most profitable design feature assemblage among a finite number of varying design feature combinations is estimated and compared among cruise ship designs with different passenger carrying capacities. Profitability is analyzed using the measure of merit (MOM) known …
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis Of An Ideal Anguilliform Swimming Motion, Charles Rogers
Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis Of An Ideal Anguilliform Swimming Motion, Charles Rogers
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
There is an ongoing interest in analyzing the flow characteristics of swimming fish. Biology has resulted in some very efficient motions and formulating these motions is of interest to engineers. One such theory was written by Dr. William Vorus and Dr. Brandon Taravella involving ideal efficiency. It is therefore interesting to test the calculations to see if it is possible to design a motion that can create thrust without necessarily creating vorticity. The computational fluid dynamics software of ANSYS Fluent was used to calculate the resulting flow field of the eel motion to compare with the theoretical values.