Issues for General Design of Warships

The following are issues to be considered when doing the general design for a warship:

• dimensions
• form coefficients (prismatic and midships coefficients)
• displacement
• armament
• armor
• power and speed
• weights analysis
• volume analysis
• freeboard, stability, and seakeeping
• structural strength and hull weight

My warship general design program currently addresses eight of these issues. I am in the process of going through each issue, doing verification and fixing problems. When this list is complete, the next step is a warship design expert system that will choose characteristics which would be processed and fleshed out by this component.