Ship Hydrodynamics - NAVL3620

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: NAVL3610
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Dimensional analysis applied to problems in naval architecture. Conservation of mass, Bernoulli equation, momentum principle. Stream function and potential function. Body generation with a distribution of sources and thin-body approximation. Complex potential, velocity and pressure. Airfoils and hydrofoils.
Plane progressive waves in both deep water and water of finite depth. Rolling and heaving of a ship in calm water. Small angles of roll and nonlinear rolling. Rolling in waves. Heave motion of a spar buoy in waves. Coupled pitching and heaving of a ship in forward motion. Ocean waves and their properties.