Design of Contemporary Inland Waterway Vessels

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Factors That Influence the Design of Contemporary Danube Vessels.- Chapter 2. The Danube Waterway with its Tributaries.- Chapter 3. Intermodality and IWT.- Chapter 4. Waterborne Transport - Representative Ship Types.- Chapter 5. Overview of Regulatory Framework From a Viewpoint of the Design of Danube Vessels.- Chapter 6. Transport Efficiencies and Performance Indicators.- Part II. Design Guidelines with the Basics on Shallow Water Hydrodynamics.- Chapter 7. Basics on Inland Waterway Vessel Hydrodynamics.- Chapter 8. Essential Expressions and Design Guidelines for the Preliminary Design of IW Vessels.- Part III. Innovative Technologies and Design Solutions for Contemporary Inland Waterway Vessels.- Chapter 9. Technologies for Improvements of Energy Efficiency and Environmental Performance.- Chapter 10. Concepts of Contemporary and Innovative Vessels.- Chapter11. Conversion and Retrofitting Options.

Professor Dejan Radojcic is Naval Architect with 40 years of academic and industrial experience, covering research focused on ship design and hydrodynamics. Academic experience (1979-2014) is rising from teaching assistant to Full Professor and Head of the Department of Naval Architecture at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He participated in a series of international (EU) and domestic projects on ship design, ship hydrodynamics, shallow draught vessels, optimization of propulsion systems, etc. Professor Radojcic published a number of often-cited scientific papers and co-authored books "Resistance and Propulsion of High-Speed Ships in Shallow Water" (1997, in Serbian) and "Power Prediction Modeling of Conventional High-Speed Craft" (Springer, 2019). As a member of a research team, D. Radojcic received in 2015 SNAME's The Vice Admiral E.L.Cochrane Award for best peer-reviewed paper published by SNAME. He was a former president of SNAS (Society of Naval Architects of Serbia), member of RINA and SNAME.

Aleksandar Simic, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Naval Architecture, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. He is a Naval Architect with 20 years of experience in research, design, and teaching, primarily in hydrodynamics of conventional and unconventional vessels. He was involved in several national and EU-funded research and innovation projects related to the development of next-generation European inland waterway vessels. The energy efficiency of inland waterway self-propelled cargo ships is the focus of his PhD thesis. In recognition of his work, as a member of the research team, he received in 2015 SNAME's The Vice Admiral E.L.Cochrane Award for best peer-reviewed paper published by SNAME. He is a member of SNAS (Society of Naval Architects of Serbia), RINA, and SNAME.

Nikola Momcilovic, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department

"This book is well written and provides the reader with some thought-provoking questions about design. The design methodologies presented, as well as the clear descriptions of the complex regulatory framework, and the emerging greening technologies would be of universal interest to those in the field. The book would also make an excellent basis for an elective course in design for inland waterways at any of the naval architecture schools." (Michael G. Morabito, Marine Technology, July, 2022)