Date of Award

2020

Degree Type

Capstone Project

Abstract

Nautical vessels are of huge importance as they are used for a vast amount of tasks all over the world. There are many characteristics that are desired in a nautical vessel stability, drag, and lift being the more important ones. Our team was challenged by Raytheon to optimize a structural shape focusing on minimizing drag and increasing stability for maritime applications.

After a few meetings Raytheon and the team deciding to apply this challenge to a boat hull as they are used in several applications. An engineering analysis with research and testing was used to find the best features to implement and optimize. These features applied together resulted in a V hull with variable deadrises, steps, reverse chines, and lifting strakes for our prototype.

This proof of concept will be run through a series of calculations to further optimize each parameter, after being compared to a baseline hull to measure where it has improved and worsened to create the most favorable design of the characteristics we are interested in. An optimized hull will be produced in DLEFTship and proven in the calculations to be more stable with lower drag than the base model. The team will speculate on how best this hull can be made and produced, trying to use the previous Raytheon projects to do this. Additional considerations will provide an insight in to important things we may not have considered during the project.

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Sponsor: Raytheon

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