MIT Center for Ocean Engineering

Congratulations to Professor Nick Makris, new director for the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering.

On March 22, Friday, at 10:30am in 5-134, Stefan Harries and Claus Abt of Friendhsip Systems will give a talk "Friendship Framework Software for Simulation-driven Design".

Increasing ship energy efficiency and complying with environmental regulations like IMO’s Energy Efficiency Design Index demand advanced technologies for optimizing hull forms. Top-performing ship hulls are potentially decisive to succeed in the competition for customers and market position. Owing to the market’s overcapacity, customers demand better product performance and a better price. Simulation-driven design is a technology that allows designers to develop better designs in shorter time. The introduction of simulation-driven design increasingly gives leading ship yards, design offices and model basins the competitive edge for fast and successful hull design.
The FRIENDSHIP-Framework offers simulation-driven design solutions for effective hull form development. It is the only software that is particularly suited for hull form optimization - from engineers for engineers. After introducing the main philosophy and capabilities of the integrated framework, some examples of hull form design by optimization will be presented, including some recent developments of the MIT Innovative Ship Design Lab together with MIT Sea Grant.

Stefan Harries is Managing Director of FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS GmbH. He is responsible for research and development regarding simulation-driven design on the basis of the CAD-CFD integration platform FRIENDSHIP-Framework. His experience comprises: parametric modelling, formal optimization and hydrodynamic simulation. He founded FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS in 2001 after studying in Germany and the USA.

Claus Abt is also Managing Director and co-founder of FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS. Claus studied naval architecture in Berlin and spent several years on research and development of advanced CAE software reaching from automotive applications to shipbuilding. Today he is responsible for the product development of the FRIENDSHIP-Framework, as well as software implementation and training at their customers' sites.

On February 27th, at 1pm in 1-242, Prof. Yonghwan Kim will give a talk "Recent Seakeeping Problems of Modern Ships and Offshore Structures in Ocean Waves"

Modern commercial ships and offshore structures are getting larger. As their sizes are bigger, the characteristics of their motion responses and wave loads are different from old vessels and structures. For example, floating structures are getting whippier and fluid-structure interactions are of great interest to predict fatigue failure. Also the liquid cargo is getting bigger, so sloshing problem due to floating-body motion becomes a critical issue in the cargo design of large LNG carriers and LNG-FPSOs.
In this presentation, recent engineering problems related to seakeeping of modern large ships and offshore structures will be introduced along with the research activities and key outcomes of Marine Hydrodynamics Lab in Seoul National University. The development of WISH program for nonlinear motion responses on waves, ship structural hydroelasticity in waves such as springing and slamming-whipping, experimental studies on sloshing, power reduction in waves for greenship design will be particular
problems to be introduced.

Prof. Yonghwan Kim got a PhD degree at MIT in 1999. He worked at ABS(American Bureau of Shipping) Technology and MIT as a research scientist before his joining Seoul National University in 2004. Currently he is the director of Advanced Marine Engineering Center(AMEC) and LRET-Funded Research Center(LRETC) in Seoul National University. He is The Lloyd’s Register Education Trust Professor and has been serving as the chair of ITTC Seakeeping Committee.