Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Theses in the Ocean Engineering Group Supervised by S.A. Kinnas
(currently only those completed since 2002)

Young, Y.L., Numerical Modeling of Supercavitating and Surface-Piercing Propellers, PhD thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, May 2002 (also UT-OE Report 02-1)(9.5 Mbs)

Hariramasamy,A., Visualization of Multi-Component Waves and Wave-Body Interactions , MS thesis, UT Austin, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, May 2002 (also UT-OE Report 02-2) (0.53 Mbs)

Kakar, K., Computational Modeling of FPSO Hull Roll Motions and Two-component Marine Propulsion Systems , MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2002 (also UT-OE Report 02-3) (9.3 Mbs)

Lee, H., Modeling of Unsteady Wake Alignment and Developed Tip Vortex Cavitation, PhD thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2002 (also UT-OE Report 02-4) (5.5 Mbs)

Natarajan, S., Computational Modeling of Rudder Cavitation and Propeller/Rudder Interaction, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2003 (also UT-OE Report 03-5) (7.5 Mbs)

Gupta, A., Numerical Prediction of Flows around Podded Propulsors, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, May 2004 (also UT-OE Report 04-6) (13.5 Mbs)

Kacham, B., Inviscid and Viscous 2D Unsteady Flow Solvers Applied to FPSO Hull Roll Motions, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, December 2004 (also UT-OE Report 04-7) (4.1 Mbs)

Mishra, B., Prediciton of Performance of Podded Propulsors via Coupling of a Vortex-Lattice Method with an Euler or a RANS Solver, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2005 (also UT-OE Report 05-1) (8.6 Mbs)

Deng, Y., Performance Database Interpolation and Constrained Nonlinear Optimization applied to Propulsor Blade Design, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, December 2005 (also UT-OE Report 05-2) (3.2 Mbs)

Gu, H., Numerical Modeling of Flow around Ducted Propellers, PhD thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2006 (also UT-OE Report 06-1) (42.3 Mbs)

Mohammed, F., Propeller Lifting Line/Rudder Interaction, MS thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2006 (also UT-OE Report 06-2) (14.4 Mbs)

Yu, Y.-H., Prediction of Flow around Ship-shaped Hull Sections in Roll Using an Unsteady Navier-Stokes Solver, PhD thesis, UT Austin, Ocean Engineering Group, Department of Civil Engineering, August 2008 (also UT-OE Report 08-1) (10.7 Mbs)