Generation of Parameterized Models for Vessels Design

Abstract

This work proposes an integrated environment for modeling, and static and dynamic analysis of vessels. The main advantage of the proposed environment is that it is possible to automatically obtain variants of a specific model in order to achieve a desired configuration, not only in relation to geometry but also concerning the static stability aspect. This environment uses the Lua programming language and it is possible to define global variables to be used as parameters which retrieve or modify modeling values such as length, width, height, and so on. Any model can be parameterized, as a function of user chosen variables, which allows an automatic modeling with the variation of those parameters.