A critical review of different works on marine propellers over the last three decades

P Majumder, S Maity - Ships and Offshore Structures, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Propeller is the main energy-producing device for any marine vehicle. To make waterway
communication economical, efficient and environment friendly, improvement of ship …

Influence of propulsion shafting longitudinal vibration on the excitation force and vortex dynamics characteristics of pump-jet propulsor

D Zou, L Xue, Q Lin, J Xu, X Dong, N Ta, Z Rao - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Pump-jet propulsors are inevitably affected by shafting vibrations in actual operating
conditions, especially the longitudinal bearing force, which is the main inducing factor of hull …

Numerical analysis on flow noise and structure-borne noise of fully appended SUBOFF propelled by a pump-jet

S Shi, X Huang, Z Rao, Z Su, H Hua - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study presents the characteristics of the flow noise of a fully appended SUBOFF
propelled by a pump-jet and the comparison with the structure-borne noise. Firstly, the …

Vibro-acoustic characteristics of a coupled pump-jet–shafting system–SUBOFF model under distributed unsteady hydrodynamics by a pump-jet

Z Su, S Shi, X Huang, Z Rao, H Hua - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents the unsteady hydrodynamics of the excitations from a pump-jet running
in the wake of a SUBOFF model and the vibro-acoustic characteristics of a coupled pump-jet …

Application of augmented Kalman filter to identify unbalance load of rotor-bearing system: Theory and experiment

D Zou, H Zhao, G Liu, N Ta, Z Rao - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2019 - Elsevier
Rotor dynamic balancing technology with online, no start-stop, no trial weights is an
important research topic in rotor dynamics, and its key problem is how to identify the rotor …

Elastohydrodynamic behavior analysis of journal bearing using fluid–structure interaction considering cavitation

Y Chen, Y Sun, Q He, J Feng - Arabian Journal for Science and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents the lubrication performance analyses of journal bearing using the fluid–
structure coupling method, whereas realistic features of cavitation and deformation are …

The hydroelastic analysis of marine propellers considering the effect of the shaft: Theory and experiment

D Zou, J Xu, J Zhang, F Lv, N Ta, Z Rao - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
At present, although there are a large number of studies on the hydroelastic analysis of ship
propellers, almost all of them neglect the shaft, thus ignoring the influence of the structural …

Study on characteristics of propeller exciting force induced by axial vibration of propulsion shafting: Theoretical analysis

D Zou, J Zhang, G Liu, N Ta, Z Rao - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
When the ship propeller works, besides non-uniform flow field can generate exciting force,
shaft vibration can also cause the propeller to produce exciting force. This type of force can …

Propeller-shaft-hull coupled vibration and its impact on acoustic radiation utilizing sono-elasticity theory

LB Qi, YS Wu, MS Zou, Y Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
A strategy is employed to address the coupling among propeller, shaft, hull and its
contribution to acoustic radiation using the three-dimensional sono-elasticity method (Zou et …

Investigation of added mass and dam** coefficients of underwater rotating propeller using a frequency-domain panel method

J Li, Y Qu, Y Chen, H Hua - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2018 - Elsevier
For a propeller vibrating in a fluid, the added mass and dam** coefficients characterize
the hydrodynamic forces and moments acting on the propeller, which are of great …