It’s a rare occasion when a piece of engineering transcends its pure industrial function and becomes art. And it’s even rarer when that metamorphosis is the byproduct of a quest for better performance ...

Cavitation is essentially a wild bit of physics that turns water — a ship's best friend — into a weapon with a massive destructive potential. It can happen around a ship's propeller and can eat ...

The Kiel University of Applied Sciences (HAW Kiel) has started a research project dedicated to a problem that research has been grappling with for almost 20 years: the low-frequency underwater sound ...

QinetiQ has recently completed sea trials of a new composite propeller in Falmouth Bay, UK. With a 2.9 metre diameter it is the world’s largest propeller. However, despite its immense proportions it ...