摘要
Journal of maine science and application (JMSA) was founded in 2002 to increase and disseminate the knowledge of shipbuilding and marine engineering and promote its practical applications, and up to the present it is the only scholarly journal in the field of shipbuilding and marine engineering at universities and colleges of China. The journal covers theoretical and experimental investigations, including shipbuilding engineering, marine power engineering, underwater acoustical engineering, automatic control, electromechanical engineering, and computer application, etc.