Principal Investigator Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
Co-investigators Julie Chalfant , George Karniadakis , Pradya Prempraneerach , Stefano Brizzolara
Project Website http://seagrant.mit.edu/design_lab.php
MIT Sea Grant is well known for its work in naval architecture and systems. This work is centered in the MIT Sea Grant Design Lab and includes the following groups and projects:
Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium -- MIT Sea Grant Director, Chrys Chryssostomidis, is a leader in the ESRDC whose mission is to design an all-electric vessel for the US Navy.
T-Craft -- T-Craft is the US Navy's Transformable Craft. MIT Sea Grant receives funding from the Office of Naval Research to design and model a propulsion system for a multihull vessel capable of ferrying heavy tanks from ships at sea through the surf and onto beachheads.
OpenProp -- This group, funded by Google, is creating a GUI-based, user-friendly tool that allows both professionals and novices to design propellers and turbines using open-source code. The team maintains the OpenProp Wiki where you will find free software for designing optimized marine propulsors.
Numerics in Computational Engineering (NiCE) -- Numerical simulation is playing an increasingly important role in many ocean-related areas, such as regional forecasting, exploring novel designs for underwater communications, or even designing new vessels based on novel hydrodynamic concepts. The NiCE group at MIT - with expertise in multi-scale mathematics and high performance computing - aims to develop new modeling and simulation methods in order to complement and enhance ongoing funded experimental and field experiments related to the aforementioned topics.