Introduction
Welcome to the Modern
Naval Vessel Design Evaluation Tool website.
This is a site that I
have been putting together for many years as a reference for use by
students and those interested in the design of ship.
Currently the primary focus of this website is Post WWII
surface warships and Aircraft Carrying type ships. In the
future I hope to expand to include other additional types of vessels.
Often during early
stage ship design, a naval architect may make use of graphs,
curves, charts, equations and/or algorithims to help estimate
the characteristics of a proposed design. There are many well
regarding naval architectural refefence books, articles, papers, and
theses available which summarize many of these estimation
techniques. However, often there can be multiple different
potential equations or algortithms available for estimating certain
aspects of a design and it is not always easy to
assess which method may be most applicable to a specific type
of vessel.
As such, I have been
using this website as a location where I can store the technical data
that I have collected on numerous post WWII warship designs, and
compare that data to different estimating techniques to help provide
guidance on which equations/algorithms, etc may be most applicable to
these type vessels.
Based on this I have been working to develop some spreadsheets that combine much of
this information to allow a user to;
- investigate existing naval vessels (for instance to
estimate approximate weights, costs, attainable speeds, or other
similar things), or
- try and develop his or her own concept designs.
I am currently in
the
process of re-organizing this website. The final layout is still
under development but one section will specifically address
conventional displacement monohull type combatant warships such as
corvettes, frigates, destroyers and cruisers,
and another section will address large monohull vessels, whose
primary mission
is to operate helicopters, tilt rotor aircraft, or fixed wing
aircraft. Eventually, as noted above I
hope to also explore developing a similar sub-site to address
submarines.
Disclaimer: I've
collected all the data discussed on these pages from open/public domain
sources over a 30+ year period. Some of the discussion
contained on these pages are my best interpretation of this data and I
hope what I have posted is correct, but I can't guarantee its accuracy,
so please proceed with caution with everything you might see on these
pages.
Notes: This website
has been developed with a number of low cost or free programs including
Hot Metal Pro, KompoZer and Da Button Factory.com
Rev 7-31-22