This work presents a fast visualization tool developed as part of the Electric Ship Research and Development Consortium (ESRDC) funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The tool allows for the visualization of thermal and electrical loads, equipment locations and other variables of interest in all-electric ship. Two versions of the tool have been developed: a web version, which allows the user to manipulate the data and visualize results online and an offline version, with a few more capabilities, to be downloaded and installed by the user. A notional ESRDC database with thermal and electrical loads, and equipment locations has been developed to be used in connection with the visualization tool. The visualization tool includes: i) a simple grid generator, used to create and discretize the ship geometry; ii) a web browser environment, based on a MySQL programming [1], used to search, collect and export available information from the ESRDC notional data base, and iii) a C++ application, used to import the data from the MySQL database, convert it from the notional geometry to a physical ship geometry and generate the graphical input files to be plotted by the VisIt public software [2].
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