Propulsion Question Pool

Marine Propulsion 1) Define EHP, DHP, SHP. 2) What is a propeller? 3) What is Indicated power in steam reciprocating engine? 4) What is Shaft power in turbines? 5) What is brake power in internal combustion engines? 6) What is velocity of advance? 7) Explain a 4-stroke diesel cycle. 8) Explain the principal of a steam turbine. 9) Explain the principal of a gas turbine. 10) What is propulsive coefficient? 11) How does the pressure distribution over a ship (length-wise) change due to the presence of a propeller? 12) What is a gear? 13) What is a clutch? 14) What are CODOG and CODAG marine engines? Momentum Theory of propeller action 15) What is the principle of an actuator disk? 16) Draw the pressure distribution diagram through the actuator disk. 17) What is the axial inflow factor? 18) What is the change in the momentum of water as it passes through the actuator disk? 19) What is the thrust produced on the propeller? 20) What is the increase in the kinetic energy of the water as it passes through the actuator disk? 21) What is the work done by the thrust on the water? 22) What is the useful work obtained per unit time? 23) What is the ideal efficiency by momentum theory? 24) What is the slip velocity? What is the slip ratio? 25) What is the efficiency in terms of the slip ratio? 26) Define the thrust loading coefficient. 27) Express the ideal efficiency in terms of the thrust loading coefficient. 28) Derive the thrust developed on the propeller by Bernoullis principle. 29) What is the angular impulse provided to the water by the propeller? 30) What is the rotational inflow factor? 31) What is the elemental thrust and the elemental torque on one annular element of the blade? 32) What is the kinetic energy lost in translation? 33) What is the kinetic energy lost in rotation? 34) What is the efficiency of the disk, taking rotational motion into account? 35) Define advance ratio. 36) Define the thrust coefficient. 37) Define the torque coefficient. 38) Define propeller open water efficiency. 39) What are the three factors on which thrust depends? 40) Draw a propeller blade section. 41) Explain pitch of a propeller. 42) What is a helix? 43) What is a helicoidal surface? 44) How does the streamline pattern over an aerofoil look like? 45) How does the pressure distribution over an aerofoil look like? 46) What is wake?

Blade Element Theory 47) What is angle of attack on an aerofoil? 48) What is drag and what is lift on an aerofoil? 49) What are the coefficients of drag and lift of an aerofoil? 50) How do the drag and lift coefficients vary with the angle of attack? 51) What is planform area? 52) What is the blade section efficiency? 53) What is the resultant water velocity on a propeller blade section? 54) What is slip? What is real slip ratio and apparent slip ratio? 55) Why does the root section does not develop much thrust? 56) What is stall? 57) Draw the pressure distribution over an aerofoil section. Propeller Geometry 58) Draw a well-labelled propeller blade diagram. 59) What is a right-handed screw propeller? 60) Define root, boss, face, back, leading edge, and trailing edge of a blade. 61) How much is the boss diameter? 62) What is rake? What is skew? 63) What is projected area, developed area, and expanded area? 64) Why does the pitch angle vary from the root to the tip of the blade? 65) What is pitch ratio? 66) What is the maximum thickness line? 67) What are the boss thickness ratio and root thickness ratio? 68) Where is the thickness where and why? 69) What is a helix? Write its equation. What is the radius of a helix? 70) Explain how a propeller section is a part of a helicoidal surface? Law of similitude of propellers 71) What are the four non-dimensional coefficients on which a propeller thrust depends? 72) Which two of the above coefficients can be scales between a propeller and its model? 73) Which two of the above coefficients cannot be scales between a propeller and its model? 74) Explain Froudes similarity between a propeller and its model. 75) What is the thrust ratio between a propeller and its model? 76) What is the power ratio between a propeller and its model? 77) What is the rpm ratio between a propeller and its model? 78) What is the torque ratio between a propeller and its model? Hull-Propeller Interaction 79) Define propeller open water efficiency. 80) Define Froude wake fraction and Taylor wake fraction. 81) Define Thrust deduction fraction and augment in resistance factor. 82) Define hull efficiency. 83) What is relative rotative effiency. 84) Define quasi-propulsive coefficient. 85) What is propeller-induced vibration? 86) What is hull-resonance diagram? 87) Define KT and KQ. Get the dimensions. 88) Plot KT, KQ, efficiency versus the advance ratio. What are the slips? 89) Where should be the design point in the above plot and why? 90) What is the Bollard pull condition?

Propeller Design 91) What are preliminary steps of propeller design? 92) What is a B4.60 propeller like? 93) What is a Bp- diagram? What is the information available from it? 94) What is the maximum efficiency line in this diagram? 95) How is a design propeller chosen from a Bp- diagram? 96) What is the design process for calculating the thrust and the torque of the propeller from the circulation theory? 97) What restricts the propeller diameter? 98) How is the propeller strength calculated? 99) Explain the model self-propulsion test. 100) For propeller model testing, what criteria need to be satisfied between the prototype and the model? Cavitation 101) What is cavitation? Why does it happen? 102) What are the three factors on which cavitation depend? 103) Why is the effective blade area ratio reduced due to cavitation? 104) What are the detrimental effects of cavitation? 105) How is cavitation prevented? 106) What is transient cavitation? 107) What is cavitation number? 108) What is local cavitation number? 109) What is the cavitation number for cavitation to begin? 110) What are the five types of cavitation in marine propellers? 111) Which part of the blade is the most likely to cavitate and why? 112) Draw the cavitation bucket. Explain it. 113) How does cavitation vary with the angle of attack? 114) What is stagnation pressure? 115) Draw the streamlines past an aerofoil. 116) What is a super-cavitating propeller? Non-conventional propulsion devices 117) What is a controllable pitch propeller? What are its advantages? 118) Which kinds of vessels require CPP? 119) What is a contra-rotating propeller? 120) What are the advantages of a CRP? 121) What is a Kort-Nozzle propeller? 122) Distinguish between accelerating and decelerating Kort-Nozzle propellers. 123) What is a Voith-Schneider propeller? 124) What is a pod propeller? Why is it used? 125) What is a bevel gear?