Readings

Texts

Buy at MIT Press Newman, J. N. Marine Hydrodynamics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977. ISBN: 9780262140263.
(Not required - an old edition will do, however, readings are assigned.)

Sabersky, R. H., A. J. Acosta, E. G. Hauptmann, and E. M. Gates. Fluid Flow. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 9780135763728.

Recommended Readings

The following abbreviations will be used to indicate the textbook and recommended reading sections. The topics in the table below closely approximate those in the calendar.

JNN - Newman, Marine Hydrodynamics

SAH - Sabersky, Acosta, Haouptmann, and Gates, Fluid Flow, 4th Ed.

* - Mark for advanced subjects

CHAPTER # TOPICS READINGS

0

Introduction

JNN 1.0, 3.0, 3.1

SAH 1.1, 1.2, App.3

1

Basic Equations

JNN 3.3, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5

SAH 2.2, 4.2, 2.4

1.1

Description of Flow

1.2

Mass and Momentum Conservation

JNN 3.6-3.9

1.3

Transport Theorem

1.4

Continuity Equation

1.5

Euler's Equation

1.6

Newtonian Fluids

1.7

Navier-Stokes Equation

SAH 2.6, 2.8

1.8

Boundary Conditions

1.9

Body Forces, Gravity

2

Similitude

2.1

Dimensional Analysis

JNN 2.0-2.2

SAH 5.1

2.2

Similarity Parameters

JNN 1.0

SAH 5.2, 5.3

3

Ideal (Inviscid) Fluid Flow

JNN 4.0-4.2

SAH 2.2, 2.4, 6.1-6.4

3.1

Introduction

3.2

Vorticity, Kelvin's Theorem

3.3

Potential Flow

3.4

Bernoulli's Equation

JNN 4.3, 4.4, 4.6

SAH 3.1, 3.6, 3.7

3.5

Boundary Conditions

3.6

Stream Function

3.7

Simple Potential Flows

JNN 4.5, 4.18, 4.10

SAH 6.5, 6.6, 6.8, 6.9

3.8

Method of Images

3.9

D'Alembert's Paradox

3.10

Lift Due to Circulation

JNN 4.13-4.16

SAH 6.7, 6.11

3.11

Unsteady Motion, Added Mass

*3.12

Slender-Body Approx.

4

Real (Viscous) Fluid Flow

JNN 2.4, 2.12, 2.5

SAH 5.7, 5.8, 7.1, 7.2

4.1

Flow Past a Sphere

4.2

Drag on a Flat Plate

4.3

Plane Couette Flow

JNN 3.10-3.13

SAH 7.3, 7.4

4.4

Poiseuille Flow

*4.5

Unsteady Flow over a Flat Plate

4.6

Laminar Boundary Layer

JNN 3.14-3.16

SAH 8.1-8.4, 8.6, 8.7

4.7

Turbulent Flow, Reynolds' Stress

JNN 3.17-3.21

SAH 8.9

4.8

Turbulent Boundary Layer

5

Model Tests

JNN 2.5, 2.6

SAH 5.7, 5.8, 8.10

5.1

Steady Flow

5.2

Unsteady Forces

JNN 2.11, 2.9

*5.3

Drag on a Ship Hull

6

Surface Waves

JNN 2.3, 4.9, 6.0-6.2

SAH 11.1, 11.13

6.1

Introduction

6.2

Small Amplitude Waves

6.3

Plane Progressive Waves

6.4

Wave Dispersion

JNN 6.3, 6.5, 6.6-6.8

*6.5

Mass Transport

6.6

Superposition

6.7

Group Velocity, Wave Energy

6.8

2D Ship Waves, Wave Resistance

JNN 6.9, 6.10

*6.9

3D Ship Wave Pattern

6.10

Wave Forces on a Body

JNN 2.13, 2.14

7

Lifting Surfaces

JNN 2.7, 5.0, 5.1

SAH 6.11, 6.12

7.1

Lift and Drag of a Foil

7.2

2D Lifting Surfaces, Linearized Theory, Analysis and Design Problems

JNN 5.2-5.5

SAH 6.13

*7.3

3D Lifting Surfaces

JNN 5.8-5.10

*7.4

Propellers

JNN 2.8, 2.10