Power converter metamodeling approach for the smart ship design environment

Abstract

The Navy is currently facing an unprecedented challenge to develop new ship designs under compressed schedules that incorporate emerging technologies for high power energy conversion in order to enable smaller ship designs with a high degree of electrification. To address this challenge a multi-disciplinary concept exploration process is required that relies upon set based design to analyze very quickly shipboard designs in order to identify feasible electrical architectures. This paper proposes a metamodeling approach to scaling of power conversion equipment aimed at producing data for the Smart Ship System Design environment to enable early stage assessment. A metamodel is developed for various PEBB-based power conversion cabinets.