Title:
Self-reconfigurable ship fluid-network modeling for simulation-based design

dc.contributor.advisor Mavris, Dimitri N.
dc.contributor.author Moon, Kyungjin en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Costello, Mark
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ferrese, Frank
dc.contributor.committeeMember Schrage, Daniel P.
dc.contributor.committeeMember Weston, Neil R.
dc.contributor.department Aerospace Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2010-09-15T18:53:40Z
dc.date.available 2010-09-15T18:53:40Z
dc.date.issued 2010-05-21 en_US
dc.description.abstract Our world is filled with large-scale engineering systems, which provide various services and conveniences in our daily life. A distinctive trend in the development of today's large-scale engineering systems is the extensive and aggressive adoption of automation and autonomy that enable the significant improvement of systems' robustness, efficiency, and performance, with considerably reduced manning and maintenance costs, and the U.S. Navy's DD(X), the next-generation destroyer program, is considered as an extreme example of such a trend. This thesis pursues a modeling solution for performing simulation-based analysis in the conceptual or preliminary design stage of an intelligent, self-reconfigurable ship fluid system, which is one of the concepts of DD(X) engineering plant development. Through the investigations on the Navy's approach for designing a more survivable ship system, it is found that the current naval simulation-based analysis environment is limited by the capability gaps in damage modeling, dynamic model reconfiguration, and simulation speed of the domain specific models, especially fluid network models. As enablers of filling these gaps, two essential elements were identified in the formulation of the modeling method. The first one is the graph-based topological modeling method, which will be employed for rapid model reconstruction and damage modeling, and the second one is the recurrent neural network-based, component-level surrogate modeling method, which will be used to improve the affordability and efficiency of the modeling and simulation (M&S) computations. The integration of the two methods can deliver computationally efficient, flexible, and automation-friendly M&S which will create an environment for more rigorous damage analysis and exploration of design alternatives. As a demonstration for evaluating the developed method, a simulation model of a notional ship fluid system was created, and a damage analysis was performed. Next, the models representing different design configurations of the fluid system were created, and damage analyses were performed with them in order to find an optimal design configuration for system survivability. Finally, the benefits and drawbacks of the developed method were discussed based on the result of the demonstration. en_US
dc.description.degree Ph.D. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34733
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Simulation-based design en_US
dc.subject Systems engineering en_US
dc.subject Graph theory en_US
dc.subject Neural networks en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Computer simulation
dc.subject.lcsh System analysis
dc.subject.lcsh Topological graph theory
dc.title Self-reconfigurable ship fluid-network modeling for simulation-based design en_US
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dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Mavris, Dimitri N.
local.contributor.corporatename Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
local.relation.ispartofseries Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Aerospace Engineering
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