MSc Advanced Naval Architecture

University of Strathclyde

This is Semester 1 module. This class aims to familiarise the students with challenges of deploying optimisation approaches in the engineering design process, including the pros and cons of different approaches widely adopted for single and multi-variable problems. The class will also address challenges associated with optimisation using resource-intensive analysis techniques, and the challenges of shape representation and shape optimisation with particular reference to ship hull form optimisation.

This is Semester 1 module. This class provides students with an understanding of the response of surface ships, at both a global and a local level. The module will start with an introduction to ship structures and structural design principles. It will then teach the loads acting on ship structures, longitudinal strength of surface ships and analysis and design of columns and beam-columns.

This is Semester 2 module. This class aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the marine regulatory framework, including background to its development, description of the current framework and future enhancements, an in-depth explanation of the theoretical background, nature and meaning of each method of assessment and a quantitative demonstration of the available routes and criteria used in assessing safety.

This is Semester 2 module. This class aims to demonstrate how the principles and methods of risk analysis are undertaken and reflected in safety assessment. Risk analysis offers a variety of methods, tools and techniques that can be applied in solving problems covering the whole life cycle of a vessel and, as such, this class will also elaborate on the practicalities of its application to a range of marine scenarios.

This is Semester 2 module. This class provides the fundamental concepts associated with the principles of manoeuvring and control theory, with a focus on vehicles operating on or below the air water interface. Students will also learn seakeeping trials, roll stabilisation, slamming, deck wetness and propeller emergence. It'll also cover long term statistics and operability of ships based on limiting criteria.

This is Semester 1 module. This class starts with the energy balance of a motorship and reviews the major contributors to the performance losses of a ship in-service. These include the resistance/power increase due to wind, waves, rudder actions/hull drift, hull roughness, biofouling etc. It also discusses the fundamentals of these contributors and describes how to estimate the ship performance losses due to these effects.

This is Semester 1 module. This class aims to introduce the students to the theoretical background of marine CFD using the finite volume method. It also aims to illustrate the key ideas related to discretisation and solution of the Momentum and Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows and to discuss some key issues related to the use of CFD packages in practical applications.

This class focuses on Data Driven Models for engineering applications, including linear and nonlinear models, model selection and error estimation. Numerical examples and real-life problems will be studied and analysed, from bearings fault prediction, to fuel consumption optimisation and sound pressure level prediction.

This class aims to provide students with an insight into ?marine? materials, their properties, failure and protection and an understanding of how their degradation affects the life-cycle of marine and offshore structures. It also aims to engender an understanding of the role of inspection and the assessment of inspection results. The class is designed to provide knowledge of the major threats to marine asset integrity including corrosion.

This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the financial and operational issues that companies that manage or own ships in the various sectors of merchant shipping face, both charter and liner shipping. In addition, an acquaintance with maritime sector infrastructures is provided.