1    Objective

As mentioned earlier these tutorials are focussing on providing the basic skills of . In this first tutorial, the main dimensions of a ship will be systematically varied. The knowledge used is Archimedes’ Law in combination with design requirements, which are the following:

The ship should have

• a displacement of at least 2000 t, but less than 3000 t;
• a draft of 6 m.

Our objective is to generate a dataset of systematically varied ships that meet the design criteria.