International Symposium on Marine Propulsors
July 12th - 16th, 2026 | St. John's, Canada
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Breakfast Location: Reception Area |
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| 8:00am - 4:00pm |
Registration Location: Reception Area |
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| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Opening Session Location: Fort William Salon A/B Dr. David Molyneux, Memorial University |
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Keynote: Sovereign Research and Innovation for Canada’s Arctic and Naval Readiness Location: Fort William Salon A/B Dr. David Murrin, National Research Council Canada |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee Break Location: Reception Area |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Session 1a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. stephen turnock Impact of Meshing and Interface Strategies on CFD Predictions on Marine Propeller Performance for Multiple Applications |
Session 1b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Kourosh Koushan Accuracy and efficiency of different propeller modelling approaches in crash stop manoeuvre simulations |
Session 1c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Kwang-Jun Paik A Numerical Approach to Support the Practical Application and Development of Series Propellers |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 2a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. stephen turnock A study for transition characteristics of marine propeller at model scale using LES |
Session 2b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Kourosh Koushan Experimental and Numerical Study of Static and Dynamic Stall on a Pitching BB2 Rudder |
Session 2c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Kwang-Jun Paik Optimization of a Marine Propeller using an Artificial Neural Network model for loadings |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm |
Session 3a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. stephen turnock Flow Physics Modeling Capabilities of URANS for Supercavitating Propellers Across Different Operating Regimes |
Session 3b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Kourosh Koushan Experimental investigation of the ONR Tumblehome propeller performance during four-quadrant open water propeller tests |
Session 3c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Kwang-Jun Paik Predicting Parametric Performance of Transverse Tunnel Thrusters using Full-Scale CFD & Learning-Based Models |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch |
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| 1:30pm - 2:00pm |
Session 4a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. Heather Peng Hybrid RANS-LES Investigation of Tip Leakage Vortex Development Varying Geometry and Tip Clearance |
Session 4b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Frederick Stern Numerical Investigation of hydrodynamic added Mass and Damping during Propeller Off-Design Operation and Crashback |
Session 4c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Lorenzo Moro Characterization of Hydrodynamic and Cavitation Performance of a Generic Ducted Propeller using High-Fidelity CFD Techniques |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Session 5a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. Heather Peng Multistage Propulsor Simulations with a Boundary Element Method |
Session 5b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Frederick Stern ONRT and KCS In-Behind Four-Quadrant Propeller Performance and Efficiency |
Session 5c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Lorenzo Moro CFD-informed Parametric Design Procedure for a Ducted Propeller AUV |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 6a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Prof. Heather Peng Surrogate-Assisted Propeller Shape Optimization in Hull Wake using 3D RANS Simulations |
Session 6b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Frederick Stern |
Session 6c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Lorenzo Moro Propeller design versus slow steaming of a low-noise container ship |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Coffee break |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Session 7a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Dr. Wei Qiu Vessel Maneuvering Evaluation based on 3DOF Full-Scale CFD Simulations |
Session 7b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Sverre Steen A Data- and Image-Driven Tool for Quantifying and Predicting Cavitation Effects of Marine Propulsors on Hydrodynamic Performance and URN |
Session 7c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Spyros Kinnas A practical Method to assess the Risk for Cavitation Erosion during automated Propeller Design optimization |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Session 8a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Dr. Wei Qiu Physics-informed Neural Networks based Processing of CFD Data for Predictions of Propeller Blade Pressure Distributions |
Session 8b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Sverre Steen A Lagrangian Bubble Cavitation Model coupled with a Boundary Element Method for the Prediction of Hydroacoustic Noise |
Session 8c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Spyros Kinnas An application of cavitation erosion risk assessment method based on cavitation observation |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Session 9a Location: Fort William Salon A/B Chair: Dr. Wei Qiu CFD Investigation of Hybrid Tandem Contra-Rotating Propellers |
Session 9b Location: Fort William Salon C Chair: Prof. Sverre Steen A semi-empirical prediction Method for the broadband Noise of a Tip-leakage Vortex Cavity |
Session 9c Location: Fort William Salon D Chair: Prof. Spyros Kinnas Numerical Investigation of Propeller-Induced Erosion Phenomena in Confined Environments |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Scientific Committee Dinner |
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