Marine Power and Propulsion

Lecture Notes

 

LEC #

TOPICS

HANDOUTS

1

Resistance and propulsion (propulsors) (PDF)

2

Actuator disk

Propeller testing - B series (PDF)

Actuator disk (PDF)

3

Design using Kt (Kq) curves (PDF)

Detail design (PDF)

Propeller note book (PDF)

4

Cavitation (PDF)

Waterjet notes (PDF)

5

First law (PDF)

Summary of thermo (PDF)

6

Second law (PDF)

Availability (PDF)

Keenan availabilty (PDF)

7

Propeller lifting line theory (Dr. Rich Kimball)

Propeller design plot example (PDF)

Units (propulsors) (PDF)

8

Propeller lifting line theory (Dr. Rich Kimball) (cont.)

9

Propeller lifting line theory (Dr. Rich Kimball) (cont.)

10

Water properties (Prof. Doug Carmichael) (PDF)

Rankine cycle (Prof. Doug Carmichael) (PDF)

11

Rankine cycle vs. pressure and temperature (Prof. Doug Carmichael) (PDF)

Practical Rankine cycle (Prof. Doug Carmichael) (PDF)

Rankine cycle with regeneration (PDF)

Rankine cycle vs. pressure with reheat (PDF)

12

Combustion (PDF)

13

Relationships for gases (PDF)

Properties of gases (PDF)

14

Basic dual cycle diesel notes (PDF)

15

Diesel analysis (cont.)

16

Diesel (cont.) or catch-up (PDF)

17

Polytropic efficiency (PDF)

Brayton cycle summary 2005 (PDF)

18

Brayton cycle - irreversible examples (PDF)

Open Brayton cycle (PDF)

Creep (PDF)

19

Electrical theory overview (PDF)

20

Motors and generators overview (PDF)

21

Electric propulsion presentation, guest lecturer Prof. Harbour

22

Reliability and availability (PDF)

Repairable systems supplement (PDF)

23

Reduction gears notes (PDF)

Marine engineering (PDF) (Courtesy of SNAME. Used with permission.)

24

Gear geometry(PDF - 5.3 MB)

Helical gear geometry (PDF)

25

Gear geometry(PDF - 5.4 MB)

Helical gears (PDF)

An attempt at showing gear meshing(AVI 1 - 1.0 MB)

A more completely designed gear video(AVI 2 - 10.3 MB)

Gear automation and design revised(PDF - 1.0 MB)

26

Review, catch-up

Air independent propulsion (PDF)

Animation of a stirling engine (AVI - 39.5 MB)

Assignments

 

ASSIGNMENTS

SOLUTIONS

Problem set 1 (PDF)

(PDF)

Problem set 2 (PDF)

ps2_soln.xmcd (XMCD)

Problem set 3 (PDF)

Associated MATLABĀ® files:

Main (M)

Meanline (M)

Plotting (M)

Reports (M)

Thickness (M)

VLM (M)

VLM (FIG)

ps3_soln.xmcd (XMCD)

Problem set 4 (PDF)

(PDF)

Problem set 5 (PDF - 1.1 MB)

(PDF)

Problem set 6 (PDF)

(PDF)

Exams

Exam 1 (PDF)

Exam 1 Solution (PDF)

Projects

The final project is a three-part frigate propulsion plant design project. Below are the full descriptions for each part.

Part 1 (PDF)

Part 2 (PDF)

Part 3 (PDF)