This paper proposes a nonlinear dynamics model for a marine propeller able to reproduce the propeller thrust over the full four-quadrant range of propeller shaft speed and vessel speed. A two-state model has been identi…ed from experimental data. The model includes a state equation for the propeller shaft speed and one that describes the dynamics of the axial ‡ow velocity. The model reproduces ...

This research has been carried out to determine the marine propeller hydro-acoustic characteristics by Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver in both uniform and non-uniform wake flow at different operating conditions Wake flow can cause changes in pressure fluctuation and gas effect on propeller noise spectrum. Noise is generated by the induced trailing vortex wake and induced pressure ...

Composite propellers offer high damping characteristics and corrosion resistance when compared with metal propellers. But the design of a hybrid composite propeller with the same strength of metal propeller is the critical task. For this purpose, the present paper focusses on fluid-structure interaction analysis of hybrid composite propeller with Carbon/Epoxy, R-Glass/Epoxy and S2-Glass/Epoxy t...

Almost all computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of flow around marine propellers use turbulence models that are only well suited for fully turbulent flows, which in some cases may lead to accuracy degradation in the prediction of propeller performance characteristics. The discrepancy between computed thrust and torque and corresponding experimental data increases with increasing prope...

We propose a four-quadrant propeller model suitable for energy-efficient motion planning of autonomous marine vehicles. The model can be used to capture the main features of experimental thrust and torque curves by using a small number of parameters. We explore the connection between the propeller thrust, torque, and efficiency curves and the lift and drag curves of the propeller blades. The mo...

This paper focuses on the modelling and simulation of unsteady sheet cavitation in marine propeller flows. In the first part of the paper, the mathematical model based on potential flow theory is introduced and the numerical scheme is derived. The novelty of the presented calculation method refers to the unsteady partial sheet cavitation model which has been implemented into the in-house panel ...