%0 Journal Article %T Choice of basic performance criteria of promising high-powered low-sized ship engines %A Bisenov Aygali Ryskalievich %J Vestnik of Astrakhan State Technical University. Series: Marine Engineering and Technologies %D 2011 %I Astrakhan State Technical University %X The analysis of performance criteria of high-powered low-sized ship engines of the Russian and foreign manufacture is given in the paper. Advantages of the application of the uprating method of low-sized ship engines on the frequency of crankshaft rotation are shown. %K high-powered low-sized ship engine %K performance criteria %K vortex formation. %U http://astu.org/content/userimages/vestnik/file/sea_1_2011/15.pdf