by Team TheNavalArch | Oct 21, 2021 | Boating, Maritime Industry, Resistance and Propulsion
Resistance estimation for a vessel is a fundamental exercise in design of the vessel. Resistance is a property that depends on the vessel’s shape and form. A conventional ship-shaped vessel with a bulb will have completely different resistance characteristics compared...
by Team TheNavalArch | Jun 8, 2020 | Resistance and Propulsion, Ship Design and Construction
How to use empirical formulas to estimate the resistance of a Ship Resistance estimation holds immense importance in the design stage of a vessel. Based on the results of the resistance estimation of a vessel, the selection of the right propulsion system is done....
by Team TheNavalArch | May 9, 2020 | Ship Design and Construction
by Bijit Sarkar, Naval Architect Introduction The eternal search of a naval architect – a perfect bow. Sadly, it never exists. Different bow forms are good for different types, sizes of vessels and seaways. What does a naval architect want out of the bow he designs?...
by prem | Mar 1, 2020 | Hydrodynamics and Resistance, Ship Design and Construction
By Tamal Mukherjee, This is the Part 1 of a two part article on the Bulbous Bow. Part 2 can be accessed here *This article originally appeared in May 2019 edition of Marine Engineers Review (India), the Journal of Institute of Marine Engineers India. It is being...
by Inno Gatin | Sep 7, 2019 | Hydrodynamics and Resistance
In the world of advancing digital technology, it important to identify all the best ways to apply it to the extremely complex task of designing a ship. Riding the wave of the rapid progress of High Performance Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become...