Marine Hydrodynamics was specifically designed to meet the need for an ocean hydrodynamics text that is up-to-date in terms of both content and approach. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of their engineering applications through its consideration of realistic configurations. Such texts have proved valuable in aerodynamics courses, but in hydrodynamics a wide gap has existed between basic texts on fluid mechanics and the engineering handbooks that are the stock-in-trade of ship designers. The book was developed from course notes used at MIT and other institutions at the late undergraduate and graduate levels. Although a knowledge of advanced calculus is required, the student is not assumed to have studied fluid mechanics, and the principles of this subject are developed in the course of the presentation. In the same way, the specific concepts of hydrodynamics are developed in a self-contained manner, with the emphasis on fundamentals, concise derivations, and simple examples. Problems and extensive references are included with each chapter. SI units are used throughout (although the seaworthy "knot" survives); an appended table facilitates conversation with respect to English units. The physical properties of water and air are also summarized in the appendix. After the general framework of the subject has been established, the applications that are introduced include not only the traditional problems of ship hydrodynamics that are encountered in naval architecture, such as resistance and propulsion, maneuvering, and seakeeping, but also closely related problems in the newer field of ocean engineering, such as wave forces acting on oil drilling rigs, storage vessels, and pipelines submerged in currents. The first chapter briefly outlines the subject; those that follow take up in turn model testing, the motion of a viscous fluid, the motion of an ideal fluid, lifting surfaces, waves and wave effects, and the hydrodynamics of slender bodies.
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Extremely well-written, readable. Here, you can learn about airfoil (hydrofoil) theory in detail, all the way through induction effects (drag and change of angle of inflow). I read it to understand outboard racing propellers. There's is no tractable theory of the latter because of asymmetry, and because racing propellers are surfacing propellers. So you learn what you can from airfoil theory and the rest is engineering via the seat of the pants, try something and then test it to see how it works. I did that for 9 years and set 3 APBA OPC speed records along with winning 6 National Championships, so the method worked pretty well in practice for me but left the most interesting questions about what propellers are doing unanswered.
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The applications of hydrodynamics to naval architecture and ocean engineering cover many separate topics and range over a broad level of sophistication. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
progressive wave system, incident wave system, streaming flow past, incident wave potential, viscous form drag, hydrodynamic pressure force, plane progressive waves, trailing vortex sheet, diffraction potential, ikx cos, foil geometry, vortex distribution, heave amplitude, spar buoy, steady translation, thin ship, steady forward motion, exciting force, heave response, marine hydrodynamics, cavitation number, residual drag, lifting problem, inner solution, naval hydrodynamics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Manoeuvering and Control of Marine Craft 2003 (IPV - IFAC Proceedings Volume) by Blanke on page 36, page 71, and page 162
- The Ocean Engineering Handbook (Electrical Engineering Handbook) by Ferial El-Hawary on page 81, page 188, and page 5
- IUTAM Symposium on Computational Methods for Unbounded Domains (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications) by Thomas L. Geers on page 4, and page 82
- Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles 2003 (IFAC Proceedings Volumes) by Geoff Roberts on page 60, and page 180
- Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems: Linear Interactions Including Wave-Energy Extraction by Johannes Falnes in Back Matter
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