Marine engineering
Also listed as: הנדסה ימית
Hydrostatics, resistance, propulsion and seakeeping. A small field in Israel with a defined set of employers, and the natural home of anyone who wants offshore or subsea work.
- Semester
- Semester B
- Weekly hours
- 4h
- Counts as
- Department electives
- Interest areas
- Flow and thermal design
Comes after
- Fluid mechanics 1
Opens up
- Hydrodynamics and offshore research
What it covers
Topics
- Ship geometry and hydrostatics, buoyancy, stability and metacentric height
- Resistance: wave-making and frictional components, Froude scaling
- Propulsion and propeller theory
- Seakeeping and vessel motions
- Marine power plants
- Hydrodynamic loads
- Introduction to naval architecture and offshore structures
Results worth carrying out
Metacentric height
Froude scaling
Propeller coefficients
Figures worth knowing
- Hull lines and body plan
- Metacentric stability diagram
- Resistance curves
- Propeller open-water curves
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