GEM 515 - Marine Systems Design and Optimization

Course Objectives

1. Establishing of the thermal and economical model for the thermal equipment and machineries in engine rooms.
2. System simulation with thermal equipment models
3. Thermo-economic analysis and optimization of systems.
4. Design of the workable and optimum systems.

Course Description

Decisions in an engineering undertaking, designing a workable and optimum system, thermodynamics, modelling and design analysis, heat transfer, modelling and analysis, engineering economics, thermo-economic analysis and evaluation, mathematical modelling of engineering design problems for optimization, modelling thermal equipment and system simulation, optimization, Lagrange multipliers, search methods, geometric programming, linear programming, artificial intelligence in thermal systems design: concepts and applications.