NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING DIVISION OF MARINE ENGINEERING Diploma Thesis Dynamic behaviour analysis of fluid film thrust bearings using Computational Fluid Dynamics methods Koutsoumpas Georgios Thesis Committee: Supervisor: C. I. Papadopoulos, Associate Professor NTUA Members: L. Kaiktsis, Professor NTUA G. Papalambrou, Assistant Professor NTUA Athens, September 2019