Marine Systems & Ocean Technology (ISSN: 1679-396X)

Description

The design process of marine systems is one of formulation, evaluation and modification. Very often the problems confronting the designer are effectively complex problems, particularly on the technical side. Analytical models have to be invoked and applied together with numerical and experimental simulations, guided by intelligent experience, at all levels of the design chain.
In the past these difficulties have been more concentrated on few particular types of marine vehicles and systems. In particular, naval architects have designed surface ships. Specialised methodologies and rules have been developed and accumulated in this field. Some excellent periodicals are dedicated to the coverage of researches and developments in this sector.
More recent technological developments, particularly in the offshore industry, have challenged this knowledge, introducing many, and often radically distinct departures from the more conventional designs. Hence, largely multidisciplinary technologies are presently at the frontline, demanding fresh contributions not only from the naval architecture and ocean engineering fields, but also from all contributing areas as civil, mechanical, electrical, material, petroleum, coastal and oceanographic engineering, applied oceanography and meteorology and applied mathematics.
Marine Systems & Ocean Technology intends to contribute to this wide and rich technological scenario by providing a forum for the discussion of mathematical, scientific and technological topics related to:
hydrodynamic and structural analysis of any fixed and floating marine systems (including ships and advanced marine vehicles),
underwater technology (including submarines, robotics, design and operation of diving systems, surveys and maintenance systems, umbilical cables, pipelines and risers),
computational methods in naval architecture, offshore/ocean engineering, coastal engineering and related areas,
environmental studies associated with oil spills and leakage prevention and control, safety concepts and risk analysis applied to marine systems, wave-energy extracting devices and sea resources in general,
ocean and river transportation economics, marine engineering and environmental protection, offshore support bases, offshore logistics.
Marine Systems & Ocean Technology is an editorial initiative jointly coordinated by SOBENA and CEENO. SOBENA is an abreviation for Sociedade Brasileira de Engenharia Naval, a learned society founded in 1962 for promoting technological development. CEENO is a Scientific Network on Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering organized in 1999 by leading members of the brazilian scientific community afiliated to two universities and two research centers: COPPE/UFRJ, USP, IPT, CENPES.