Research Titles for Undergraduate Students

Title 1
The Application of Neural Network during mobilization of offshore platform in decommissioning process in Malaysia water

Objectives:
1. To make assessment on maneuverability of the vessel during transporting the decommissioned offshore platform
2. To make demarcation of the safety rubric

Scopes:
1. Take actual dimension from Sapura transportation vessels.
2.

Scientific method to be used:
1. Artificial intelligence – Neural network ( backpropagation architecture) for the predicting the transportation vessel

Parties involved : Petronas, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (INOS department)

Title 2
CFD-based hydrodynamic analysis of ship maneuvering in calm water for KCS containership

Objectives:
1. To make evaluation on the ship maneuvering of a ship using Japanese MMG maneuvering model using CFD.
2. To make validation between results from CFD and numerical simulation using FORTRAN and experiment data.

Scopes:
1. Find and select available solvers for in openFOAM CFD for the ship maneuvering in calm water.
2. Make comparison and validation with available experiments data from Hiroshima University team.

Title 3
CFD-based hydrodynamic analysis of ship maneuvering in calm water for KVLCC2 tanker

Objectives:
1. To make evaluation on the ship maneuvering of a ship using Japanese MMG maneuvering model using CFD.
2. To make validation between results from CFD and numerical simulation using FORTRAN and experiment data.

Scopes:
1. Find and select available solvers for in openFOAM CFD for the ship maneuvering in calm water.
2. Make comparison and validation with available experiments data from Hiroshima University team.

Title 4
The Application of Neural Network for hydrodynamic analysis of KCS container ship maneuvering in calm water

Objectives:
1. To make evaluation on the ship maneuvering of a ship using Japanese MMG maneuvering modelling.
2. To make validation between results from neural network and numerical simulation using FORTRAN and experiment data.

Scopes:
1. Model of KCS containership.
2. Make comparison and validation with available experiments data from Hiroshima University team.


Title 5
The Application of Neural Network for hydrodynamic analysis of KVLCC2 tanker maneuvering in calm water

Objectives:
1. To make evaluation on the ship maneuvering of a ship using Japanese MMG maneuvering modelling.
2. To make validation between results from neural network and numerical simulation using FORTRAN and experiment data.

Scopes:
1. Model of KVLCC2 tanker.
2. Make comparison and validation with available experiments data from Hiroshima University team.

Title
Study on Mobilization of offshore platform during decommissioning process in Malaysia water : A naval architects point of view

Objectives:
1. To make assessment on maneuverability of the vessel during transporting the decommissioned offshore platform for
2. To make demarcation of the safety rubric

Parties involved : Petronas, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (INOS department)

Title
Study on Decommissioned FPSO Ship for Fish Farming Vessel in Malaysia Water : A naval architects point of view

Objectives:
1. To study on the operation of the in-situ decommissioning
2. To study on the operation of the fish farming vessel
3. To study on the possibilities and factors to be considered in converting FPSO to the Fish Farming operation

Scientific method to be used:
1.

Parties involved : Malaysia Fisheries, Petronas, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Sapura KL office, UMT INOS department