NSTL organises ship design workshop to advertise self-reliance

Director General (Naval Systems & Materials), DRDO, R.V. Hara Prasad, highlighted the pivotal position of indigenous ship design and innovation in attaining atmanirbhar in naval programs. He emphasised the necessity to combine Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) instruments, Digital Twin ideas, meta-materials, and superior stealth design strategies into future ship design processes.

The DG (NS & M) inaugurated a Ship Design Workshop, organised by the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) to advertise self-reliance and to strengthen indigenous ship design ecosystem with the target of strengthening India’s indigenous ship design capabilities and fostering collaboration amongst stakeholders from the Indian Navy, Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), non-public shipyards, classification societies, and academia.

Rear Admiral Sujit Baxi, Director General (Warship Design Bureau), Abraham Varughese, Director NSTL, Cmde (Retd.) Girideep Singh, CMD Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), D. Radha Krishna, Group Director (Warship Technologies), P.C. Praveen, Technology Director (Hydrodynamics Research) and M. Nageswara Rao, Chairman SDW-25 participated within the inaugural session.

Senior officers from the Indian Navy, representatives from Defence Public Sector Undertaking (DPSUs), non-public shipyards, classification societies, design homes and educational & analysis establishments attended the workshop.

Mr. Hara Prasad careworn on the rising significance of inexperienced transport applied sciences, energy-efficient propulsion programs, and sustainable supplies to align naval design with world environmental and operational requirements. He highlighted that realisation of enormous cavitation tunnel facility was at the moment within the pipeline. NSTL was providing all of the take a look at amenities to trade and educational establishments on want foundation. He additionally shared his imaginative and prescient for NSTL to evolve as a world chief in ship mannequin testing and analysis, comparable with main international hydrodynamic analysis amenities.

Mr. Hara Prasad emphasised the necessity for collaborative efforts throughout design, testing, and validation domains to make India self-reliant and globally aggressive in superior ship design and hydrodynamic & stealth analysis.

Addressing the gathering, Rear Admiral Sujit Baxi recommended DG (NS&M) and Director NSTL for taking the initiative in bringing collectively all key stakeholders within the nationwide ship design ecosystem on a standard platform.

In his welcome handle, Mr. Abraham Varughese outlined the laboratory’s contributions in underwater programs, ship hydrodynamics, and stealth applied sciences. He famous that the workshop offered a singular platform for dialogue between designers, shipbuilders, classification societies, and academia to determine areas for joint R&D and technological innovation.

The workshop featured technical classes masking capabilities of NSTL within the area of hydrodynamics and stealth applied sciences, Demonstration of amenities excessive velocity towing tank, seakeeping and manoeuvring basin, cavitation tunnel, mannequin manufacturing facility, wind tunnel, stealth and environmental take a look at amenities.