John B. Woodward

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Professor Emerituswoodward

117 NA&ME Bldg.
2600 Draper Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2145
(734) 764-4296
E-mail: woodward@umich.edu

B.S.E. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1949; Mechanical Engineering
M.S.E. University of Michigan, 1963; Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1965; Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

  • Research Interests
  • Selected Publications

Energy uses and transfers in marine machinery. Improved analysis of power machinery through updated thermodynamic principles. Marine machinery forensics.

Selected Symposium Presentations

  1. “Electric Power for Small Commercial Vessels,” (co-author), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Spring Meeting, 1973.
  2. “The Auxiliary Sailboat Engine Meets Lead-Free Gasoline,” Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section Meeting, October 1985.
  3. “Confrontations with Data: Some Examples for the Engineer,” Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section Meeting, January 1981.
  4. “The Titanic and Lusitania: A Final Forensic Analysis,” (co-author), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Chesapeake Section, March 2, 1995.
  5. “RMS Titantic: An Engineer’s Evaluation,” Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section, Toledo, Ohio, January 1996.

Selected Publications

  1. Marine Gas Turbines, John Wiley & Sons, 1975.
  2. Slow Speed Marine Diesel, John Wiley & Sons, 1981.
  3. “Deflections of Hull and Propulsion Shafting for Great Lakes Ore Carriers,” (co-author) Marine Technology, April 1984.
  4. “Modeling of Diesel Engine Transient Behavior in Marine Propulsion Analysis,” (co-author) Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1984.
  5. “Part-Load Optima in Bottoming Cycles,” Energy (Pergamon), Vol. 12, 1987.
  6. “Simulation of Air and Exhaust Flows in Four-Stroke Turbocharged Diesel Engines,” (co-author) International Shipbuilding Progress, June 1984.
  7. “Marine Engines,” The Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Academic Press, 1987.
  8. “Ships,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 1995 printing.
  9. “The Rankine Topping Cycle Revisited,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 36, 1992.
  10. “The Lights of the Titanic,” Marine Technology, Vol. 30, 1993.
  11. “A Second Law Analysis of Air-Standard Diesel-Turbocharger-Bottoming Cycles,” Transactions of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 207 / Part A, 1993.
  12. “Evaluation of Brayton and Rankine Alternatives for Diesel Waste Heat Exploitation,” Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 116, pp. 39-45, 1994.
  13. “Ship Operational and Safety Aspects of Ballast Water Exchange at Sea,” (co-author), Marine Technology, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1994.
  14. “Air-Standard Modeling for Closed-Cycle Diesel Processes,” Transactions of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Vol. 209 / Part A, 1995.
  15. “Ideal Cycle Evaluation of Steam-Augmented Gas Turbines,” Journal of Ship Research, Vol. 40, 1996.