On the special occasion of the upcoming 90th birthday of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Horst Nowacki, former head of the section Ship Design at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, and former professor at the University of Michigan, USA, a special issue of Ship Technology Research shall be published in 2023.
The Editor in Chief of Ship Technology Research, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bettar Ould el Moctar from the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany, along with two guest editors, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Apostolos Papanikolaou and Dr.-Ing. Stefan Harries, would like to call for papers in the wider field of “Simulation-driven Design of Maritime Systems”.
Both guest editors – Apostolos Papanikolaou, emeritus professor at the National Technical University Athens, Greece, and Stefan Harries, member of the executive board of FRIENDSHIP SYSTEMS in Potsdam, Germany – look back at inspirational years with Horst Nowacki. The special issue will be an occasion to honor Prof. Nowacki’s exceptional achievements. In the context of naval architecture and ocean engineering, topics for which papers are sought are
- Ship design and numerical ship hydrodynamics
- Geometric modeling and parametric design
- Formal optimization and machine learning
- Product data technology and data exchange
- History of Ship Theory and Ship Design
