TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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ABSTRACT 1 



ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



PROPELLER-HULL INTERACTION IN POTENTIAL FLOW 5 



SINGULARITIES REPRESENTING THE HULL 



AND APPENDAGES 5 



SOLUTION FOR THE THRUST DEDUCTION 8 



PROPELLER FIELD POINT VELOCITIES 10 



LIFTING-LINE THEORY 11 



LIFTING-SURFACE CORRECTIONS 17 



EXAMPLE CALCULATIONS AND COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTS 22 



EXAMPLE 1: APPENDED SERIES 58 FORM 24 



EXAMPLE 2: COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL AND 



EXPERIMENTAL PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS 



ON THREE BODIES OF REVOLUTION 32 



EXAMPLE 3: BODY OF REVOLUTION WITH STERN 



APPENDAGES 44 



EXAMPLE 4: APPENDED BODY OF REVOLUTION WITH 



FOUR RAKED PROPELLERS 50 



CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 61 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 65 



REFERENCES 66 



APPENDIX A - THE FORCE GENERATED ON A BODY IN POTENTIAL 



FLOW BY AN ISOLATED SINGULARITY 69 



APPENDIX B - SINK DISK REPRESENTATION OF A MODERATELY 



LOADED PROPELLER 75 



