Open Water Performance of the KP505 Propeller
Application ID: 131271
A propeller is the propulsion device of a ship. This model studies the open water performance of the KP505 propeller[1]using the frozen rotor method with RANS turbulence model. Thrust and torque coefficient, and open water efficiency of the propeller at different advance coefficients are calculated and the results are in good agreement with the experimental results[2].
Reference:
[1] KP505 propeller geometry courtesy of Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering
[2] National Maritime Research Institute (NMRI) 2015 Tokyo 2015: A Workshop on CFD in Ship Hydrodynamics http://www.t2015.nmri.go.jp
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