Autonomous underwater vehicles play an essential role in geophysical data collection, deep
water mining, seafloor mapping, ocean exploration, and in many other related activities …

Propeller is the main energy-producing device for any marine vehicle. To make waterway
communication economical, efficient and environment friendly, improvement of ship …

The main aims of this study are to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of an
autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), calculate its hydrodynamic coefficients, and …

The hull–propeller interaction of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in straight and
oblique flow is numerically studied. The study is performed based on computational fluid …

A numerical analysis based on detached eddy simulations is conducted to investigate vortex
dynamics of a pre-swirl pumpjet propulsor (PJP) in oblique inflow. In this paper, the working …

Abstract Improved designs for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) are becoming
increasingly important due to their utility in academic and industrial applications. However, a …

This article presents experimental and numerical studies on the effect of free stream
turbulence (FST) on evolution of flow over an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) hull …

Results of computations of the unsteady loadings on marine propellers behind the KVLCC2
tanker using different engineering and numerical methods are presented and analyzed. The …

This paper presents a design of foldable propellers for a hybrid-driven underwater glider.
The design ensures that the propellers are fully closed when the glider is working in …

In this paper, hull/propeller interaction of a submarine model which has a realistic geometry,
in submergence and surface conditions has been studied. For this purpose, the …