System-level ship thermal management tool for dynamic thermal and piping network analyses in early-design stages

We present herein the coupling of two system-level ship thermal management tools, namely, Cooling System Design Tool (CSDT) and vemESRDC developed at MIT and FSU, respectively, for dynamic thermal and piping network analyses in early-design stages. Each tool exhibits unique features that allow naval architects to investigate and visualize distinct ship thermal responses. vemESRDC, for instance, provides dynamic equipment and shipboard space temperature and relative humidity, while CSDT arranges realistic piping network layouts and provides pressure distributions in the network. In this work, we elaborate the integration strategy and conduct a simple case study using the integrated tool to verify the coupling. We then present the results to demonstrate the capability of the integrated tool.