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RoPax Design Revisited—Evolution or Revolution?

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The design development of a RoPAX vessel is very complex, in fact one can argue that stricter regulatory requirements and multitude of operational flexibility required by the owner and operator makes it one of the most challenging vessel types to bring any real improvement. Although the know-how and experience of the design team is vitally important, an optimising platform such as that offered by HOLISHIP can help develop design solutions much more tailored to the needs and challenges the prospective owner and the marketplace brings about. This application case demonstrates how a RoPAX design can be optimised by using the HOLISHIP platform. A number of critical ship design development tools and methods, particularly parametric modelling tools and their use in design optimisation, are presented and discussed. Although the focus of the optimisation problem and the complexity may vary the processed employed here demonstrates the capabilities and potential of the HOLISHIP platform. This chapter also offers an insight to the predicament of weather to follow traditional designs to meet owners’ specifications or make a special effort to accomplish something new, go beyond the norm.

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    TRITEC, NTUA, FSS, HSVA, BV, ALPHA, HSB, ULG, BALANCED, CNR, EPSILON.

Abbreviations

BV:

Bureau Veritas

CAD:

Computer Aided Design

CAE:

Computer Aided Engineering

CAESES:

Computer Aided Engineering System Empowering Simulation

CASD:

Computer Aided Ship Design

CAPEX:

CapitalExpenditure

CFD:

Computational FluidDynamics

CPP:

Controllable Pitch Propeller

cST:

CentiStokes: unit of kinematic viscosity = 1 mm2/s

DF:

Dual Fuel (engine)

DG:

Diesel Generator

DoE:

Design of Experiment

DWT:

Deadweight

EU:

European Union

EC:

European Commission

EEDI:

Energy Efficiency Design Index

IMO:

International Maritime Organisation

HFO:

Heavy Fuel Oil

H2:

Hydrogen

KPI:

Key Performance Indicator

LFO:

Light Fuel Oil

LNG:

Liquid Natural Gas

LSMDO:

Low Sulphur Marine Diesel Oil

MARPOL:

Marine Pollution

MCR:

Maximum Continues Rating

MDO:

Marine Diesel Oil

MGO:

Marine Gas Oil

ME:

Main Engine

NAPA:

Naval Architecture Package of Napa Oy

NiAlBr:

Nickel-Aluminium Bronze (Propeller material)

NPV:

Net Present Value

NM:

Nautical Mile

OPEX:

Operational Expenditure

PAX:

Passenger Number

PMS:

Power Management System

PTO:

Power Take Off

R&D:

Research and Development

RFR:

Required Freight Rate

RNPV:

Required Net Present Value

ROI:

Return On Investment

RoPAX:

Ro-Ro Passenger Ferry

SEECAT:

Ship Energy Efficiency Calculation and Analysis Tool

SOBOL:

Sobol Sampling Method

SOLAS:

Safety of Life at Sea

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  1. Tritec Marine Ltd., Clydebank, UK

    Cantekin Tuzcu, Cameron Dinsdale & Jack Hawkins

  2. Ship Design Laboratory, National Technical University, Athens, Greece

    George Zaraphonitis & Fotis Papadopoulos

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Tuzcu, C., Dinsdale, C., Hawkins, J., Zaraphonitis, G., Papadopoulos, F. (2021). RoPax Design Revisited—Evolution or Revolution?. In: Papanikolaou, A. (eds) A Holistic Approach to Ship Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71091-0_11

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