Hydrodynamic characteristics of a lunate shape oscillating propulsor

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-530

  Liu, Pengfei ^a   Bose, Neil ^b  

^a PO Box 314   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamic efficiency; Lunate planform; Panel method; Time domain

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; POTENTIAL FLOW; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNSTEADY FLOW;

LUNATE SHAPE OSCILLATING PROPULSORS;

HYDROFOILS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; POTENTIAL FLOW; SKIN FRICTION; WING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DRAG; HYDRODYNAMICS; POTENTIAL FLOW; THRUST;

EID: 0033152637     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(98)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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