A Review of Progress and Hydrodynamic Design of Integrated Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Thank you for your invitation to review your paper.  This paper is a review paper of  Integrated  Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion.  I recommend few things to improve your manuscript. 

• I recommend to rearrange and re produce your figures and table to be fixed in Journal format.  They are to poor quality, font, irregular format and sizes.
• Please follow the journal format for reference.
• I recommend to describe the principle of Motor Pump-Jet Propulsionby your produced figure, after then you can review.  Review  paper is not just listing of literature. 
• Please re-order reference citation in your manuscript with correcting reference format.
• As I mentioned, review paper is not just a copy and paste.  I could not find exactly your understanding with this review.  You tried to list again in the conculsion.  Please summarize your understanding in conclusion. The conclusion is too long and not summarized.

 

Author Response

Prof. Dr. Papasanee Muanruksa

Assistant Editor

Applied Sciences

MDPI Branch Office, Bangkok,

Thank you for your useful comments, remarks, and suggestions on the structure of our manuscript. We have read the editor and reviewers’s comments provided and dealt with them very carefully. The old version of our manuscript entitled A Review of Progress and Hydrodynamic Design of Integrated Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion” with Manuscript ID: applsci-1615491, was revised in accordance with the editor and reviewers’s comments. The answers and modifications are written in blue colour in this response letter and in track changes in the manuscript.

Reviewer’s comments

• Review Report Form

English language and style

(x) Extensive editing of English language and style required

The authors have improved the English language in the whole manuscript as the reviewer requested

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thank you for your invitation to review your paper.  This paper is a review paper of  Integrated  Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion.  I recommend few things to improve your manuscript. 

• I recommend to rearrange and re produce your figures and table to be fixed in Journal format.  They are to poor quality, font, irregular format and sizes.
• The authors have rearrange and re produce the figures and table to be fixed in Journal format
• Please follow the journal format for reference.
• The authors have followed the journal format for references
• I recommend to describe the principle of Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion by your produced figure, after then you can review.  Review  paper is not just listing of literature. 
• The principle of Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion has been described as suggested by reviewer.
• Please re-order reference citation in your manuscript with correcting reference format.
• The authors have re-ordered all references citation in the manuscript with correcting references format
• As I mentioned, review paper is not just a copy and paste.  I could not find exactly your understanding with this review.  You tried to list again in the conculsion.  Please summarize your understanding in conclusion. The conclusion is too long and not summarized.

• The authors have modified the review and summarized the conclusion

Reviewer 2 Report

In the paper theoretical and experimental research on the design, performance analysis, and control of IMP is discussed, covering electric motors, bearing structure, hydrodynamic design, and hydrodynamic, electromagnetic, and bearing coupling design technology. Presented research investigates the most recent research goals, progress, and applications of IMP’s hydrodynamic design, which includes hydrodynamic performance, cavitation, and gap flow. Also, the future essential technologies of high power and low vibration, water-lubricated bearings, coupling design, electromagnetic and bearing, and IMP’s anti-fouling and anti-damage capacity are summarized.

In the article, the signatures of figures and tables should be standardized. In my opinion, the signatures have different font sizes. Figure 5 should also be better signed. There is no information what is c and d in this figure. In addition, the table presentation should be standardized. 

In some part of presented tables, the information provided in column "Findings" is not fully readable through the truncated text.

After introducing editorial corrections, improving the readability of the article I recommend it for publication.

Author Response

Prof. Dr. Papasanee Muanruksa

Assistant Editor

Applied Sciences

MDPI Branch Office, Bangkok,

Thank you for your useful comments, remarks, and suggestions on the structure of our manuscript. We have read the editor and reviewers’s comments provided and dealt with them very carefully. The old version of our manuscript entitled A Review of Progress and Hydrodynamic Design of Integrated Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion” with Manuscript ID: applsci-1615491, was revised in accordance with the editor and reviewers’s comments. The answers and modifications are written in blue colour in this response letter and in track changes in the manuscript.

Reviewer’s comments

• Review Report Form

English language and style

(x) English language and style are fine/minor spell check required

The authors have improved English language and style

 

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

In the paper theoretical and experimental research on the design, performance analysis, and control of IMP is discussed, covering electric motors, bearing structure, hydrodynamic design, and hydrodynamic, electromagnetic, and bearing coupling design technology. Presented research investigates the most recent research goals, progress, and applications of IMP’s hydrodynamic design, which includes hydrodynamic performance, cavitation, and gap flow. Also, the future essential technologies of high power and low vibration, water-lubricated bearings, coupling design, electromagnetic and bearing, and IMP’s anti-fouling and anti-damage capacity are summarized.

In the article, the signatures of figures and tables should be standardized. In my opinion, the signatures have different font sizes. Figure 5 should also be better signed. There is no information what is c and d in this figure. In addition, the table presentation should be standardized. 

The authors have rearranged the figures and the tables to be standardized. The font sizes also corrected. Figure 5 has been modified and the informations for c and d in have been added. The table presentation has been modified to be standardized. 

In some part of presented tables, the information provided in column "Findings" is not fully readable through the truncated text. After introducing editorial corrections, improving the readability of the article I recommend it for publication.

The informations of tables have been provided in column "Findings" and improved to be readable.

 

 

 

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

• Still, I want to recommend important thing. Major thing to be updated is the definition or description of pump jet or what you want to claim. You just copied and pasted from the start of your paper. 
• Please find any method improving figure quality. 

Author Response

Prof. Dr. Karena Pan

Section Managing Editor

Applied Sciences

Thank you for your useful comments, remarks, and suggestions on the structure of our manuscript. We have read the editor and reviewers’s comments provided and dealt with them very carefully. The old version of our manuscript entitled A Review of Progress and Hydrodynamic Design of Integrated Motor Pump-Jet Propulsion” with Manuscript ID: applsci-1615491, was revised in accordance with the editor and reviewers’s comments. The answers and modifications are written in blue colour in this response letter and in track changes in the manuscript.

Reviewer’s comments

• Review Report Form

English language and style

(x) Moderate English changes required

As the reviewer recommended, the authors polished the English throughout the manuscript.

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Still, I want to recommend important thing. Major thing to be updated is the definition or description of pump jet or what you want to claim.

The authors have added the description of pump jet in introduction section.

 

Please find any method improving figure quality.

The reviewer's suggestions were implemented, and the figures quality have been improved.

 

 

 

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to hearing from you.