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Program Details

ARCHITETTURA NAVALE 1

• Code: 60506
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• CFU: 6
• Course Type: L-9
• Location: LA SPEZIA
• Language: Italiano
• Period: 2° Semestre
• Prerequisites:
  • INGEGNERIA NAUTICA 8721 (coorte 2024/2025)
  • IDRODINAMICA A
  • DESIGN DEL PRODOTTO E DELLA NAUTICA 9274 (coorte 2024/2025)
  • GEOMETRIA DEI GALLEGGIANTI A (CDL)
  • COSTRUZIONI NAVALI A

Presentation

The course provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary to understand the main activities related to the choice of the most suitable hull and propeller for the needs of the case.

Objectives and Contents

Educational Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the fundamental principles and basic knowledge related to resistance to motion and propulsion of hulls.

Detailed Educational Objectives and Learning Outcomes

The course intends to provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary to predict the resistance to motion of a hull, with reference to the influence of its geometric characteristics, as well as the knowledge and methodological tools necessary for the choice of the most efficient propeller for the hull.

Teaching Methods

The teacher will use:

1. Frontal lessons for about 80% of the total hours
2. Exercises in the classroom and at the Naval Basin to practically deepen theoretical aspects for about 20% of the total hours.

Program/Content

Main problems of fluid-hull interaction, recalls of hydrodynamics equations and homogeneity theorem, principle of similitude. Components of resistance to motion: tangential resistance, boundary layer, frictional resistance, flat plate resistance, hull surface, viscous pressure resistance, form resistance, induced resistance, wave resistance, wave field generated by a hull, absorbed energy, interference, bulb, resistance due to breaking waves, resistance of appendages, air resistance. Parameters that influence the resistance to motion. Model tests, presentation of results, systematic series of tests and statistical methods. Model tests, isolated propeller diagrams, cavitation, propulsion coefficients, self-propulsion tests, systematic series of propellers, propulsion problems, propeller design, performance prediction.

Texts/Bibliography

• Principles of Naval Architecture, volumes II and III SNAME, 1988
• Course notes available to enrolled students on the AulaWeb Portal

Teachers and Commissions

• Teacher: MARCO FERRANDO
• Commission:
  • MARCO FERRANDO (President)
  • STEFANO GAGGERO
  • GIORGIO TANI
  • DIEGO VILLA
  • NICOLA PETACCO (Supplementary President)

Lessons

Start of Lessons

Lesson Schedule

• ARCHITETTURA NAVALE 1

Exams

Exam Methods

The learning assessment method consists of an oral exam.

Exam Modalities

The exam aims to assess the student's ability to solve classic problems of Naval Architecture related to a recreational naval unit.

The exam consists of two open questions on topics covered in class and treated in the course notes.

From the examination of the answers, it is ascertained whether the student has acquired the notions and techniques illustrated in the course of the lessons and in the course notes.

The attribution of the vote will take into account:

• Knowledge of the topics covered
• Understanding of the related physical phenomena
• Expositional ability
• Problem-solving ability

Exam Calendar

Date	Time	Location	Type	Notes
16/01/2026	10:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
09/02/2026	10:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
03/06/2026	09:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
17/06/2026	09:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
01/07/2026	09:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
15/07/2026	09:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral
10/09/2026	09:00	LA SPEZIA	Oral

Other Information

For further information not included in the teaching sheet, please contact the teacher.

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