Reddit reviews Applied Naval Architecture

The only other one I can really think of is Zubaly's Applied Naval Architecture, I was told during my sophomore year that this book would be my Bible for life, and although I only just graduated recently, it has been quite useful, primarily in school so far though. I know they're not really related topics, but that's all I got.

As someone who is currently in my 4th year in an NA/ME undergrad program I can only offer my perspective on your decision and hope that it helps. Having witnessed a friend or two go through the Mech program my university offers I can tell you that overall the concepts that distinguish NA/ME from general Mech are few - though those few can be quite important. For the most part the classes I have taken mirror the classes my Mech friends have taken to the point where our first Static Structures class was the same, our Intro to Dynamics class was the same, and I even took the Mech version of Fluid Dynamics I because I couldn't take the NA/ME version. For the most part the classes are interchangeable - which sits well with your plan. The differences arise in the fact that Mech will give you none of the basics for Marine design: stability calculations, propeller/engine shaft design, that sort of thing. To compensate, I would recommend this book: Applied Naval Architecture. It's what I use at my university and I find I come back to it quite frequently as it contains a little bit of everything.

Beyond that, my main concern for you lies in the Area of Fluid Dynamics. Right now I'm enrolled in both the Mech and NA/ME version of Fluids II and they are very different. Mech is dedicated to learning CFD in FLUENT and the NA/ME is dedicated to describing scaling parameters between testing models and actual ships. The NA/ME class leads heavy into what my Senior design course will be next year and our Senior Lab, while the Mech class, while useful to know, doesn't help much at all. I wish I could offer you a good source to read on, but as my NA/ME class doesn't use an official book (just course pack) I really don't know of an equivalent that would meet your needs.

So basically, I would say you would be mostly on par with anyone else entering a Masters program straight out of undergrad for NA/ME with just a few exceptions. Hope this helped!

Yep it's pretty thick haha, but for your practical purposes you don't need to concern yourself too much with the complex math and calcs. I have no idea how versed you are in Naval architecture or engineering so skip what you already know and forgive me if some of this is obvious to you, but start with making sure you understand the definitions of everything in section one and then section two is what you're looking for. Simple stability. Make sure you understand the equilibrium conditions and the forces and moments that govern them, and the concept of metacentric height. For what you're doing that will be more than enough to make a simple model to roughly ensure you'll be stable. Take the hull you're wanting to build and make a general representative shape to make the calculations easier, i.e. A typical v-hull fishing boat could be simply modeled as a box on top of a triangular prism for simplicity. Down at pages 121 and on there are some simple examples that will illustrate what you'll want to do if you are going to calculate stability. You could also of course just understand the principles and "eyeball" it for s small boat like you want to build. If you are though interested in serious naval architecture I suggest applied naval architecture by zubaly. It's a very practical and straight to the point text that's presented in a logical order and understandable way in my opinion, although there are a few other texts that are considered the bibles of NA as well. Good luck and hope the dinghy turns out great!

https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Naval-Architecture-Robert-Zubaly/dp/0870334751