Fundamentals of Ship Hydrodynamics: Fluid Mechanics, Ship Resistance and Propulsion is a comprehensive textbook covering hydrodynamics as applied to the design of boats and ships. It explains the physics behind the flow of air and water past a ship hull and includes the necessary basic fluid mechanics. Methods to estimate resistance and propulsion characteristics for calm water conditions in the design stage as well as their assessment by model tests are illustrated and discussed in detail.
Fundamentals of Ship Hydrodynamics: Fluid Mechanics, Ship Resistance and Propulsion takes a pedagogical approach and is organized as a series of lectures. It begins with the fundamentals before covering exterior flow, boundary layer theory and potential flow, and finishes with how performance at the ship trial is measured and assessed. Real life examples of procedures are included throughout and a companion website including a solutions manual, sample code and color artwork is also available.
Fundamentals of Ship Hydrodynamics builds a bridge between the basic fluid mechanics (of exterior flow) and ship hydrodynamics. The competitive titles do not cover the necessary basic fluid mechanics theory and they omit necessary equations and provide no data to implement and properly verify methods without additional references. Fundamentals of Ship Hydrodynamics concentrates on methods applicable to modern boat and ship hull forms while each method addressed will be described in detail to enable the reader to implement and test her/his own program or spreadsheet.
