Head
Wojciech Litwin, Sc.D., Associate professor at GdańskTech
Selected research interests
- Equipment on board vessels (anchoring - mooring, towing, etc.).
- Saving devices and systems for evacuation of people on board (davits and raft, dump boat systems, stern evacuation systems).
- Steering gears.
- Azimuth propellers and thrusters.
- Adjustable propeller.
- Hydraulics systems.
- Ship and boat cranes, and other loading facilities.
- Devices and systems for fishing vessels.
- Bearing of main marine shafts.
- Hybrid vessels propulsion systems.
- Offshore renewable energy. Equipment for generating energy of sea waves, currents and tides. Design of supporting offshore wind farms.
- Anchoring platforms and other objects on the waters of the large depths.
Selected research grants from recent years
- “Development of a prototype sea-going catamaran with hybrid propulsion and energy recovery during sailing” - POIR.01.01.01-00-1091/18, National Centre for Research and Development; 2019-2022
- “Research on water lubricated sliding couples in conditions of improper lubrication conditions”, National Science Centre, 2017-2020
Selected papers recently published
- F. Quinci, W. Litwin, M. Wodtke, R. van den Nieuwendijk - comparative performance assessment of a hydrodynamic journal bearing lubricated with oil and magnetorheological fluid; Tribology International 2021
- Wodtke M. , Litwin W.: Water-lubricated stern tube bearing - experimental and theoretical investigations of thermal effects; Tribology International 2021
- Leśniewski W., Piątek D., Marszałkowski K., Litwin W.: Small Vessel with Inboard Engine Retrofitting Concepts; Real Boat Tests, Laboratory Hybrid Drive Tests and Theoretical Studies; Energies 2020
- Litwin W. Marine propeller shaft bearings under low-speed conditions: water vs. oil lubrication; TRIBOLOGY TRANSACTIONS (2019)