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<p>The lifting surface model is widely used in screw propeller design and analysis applications. It serves as a reliable tool for determination of the propeller blade mean line and pitch distribution. The main idea of this application was to determine the blade shape that would satisfy the kinematic boundary condition on its surface with the prescribed bound circulation distribution over it. In this paper a simplified lifting surface method is presented – in which the 3D task for the entire blade is replaced by a set of 2D tasks for subsequent blade section profiles.</p>
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The lifting surface model is widely used in screw propeller design and analysis applications. It serves as a reliable tool for determination of the propeller blade mean line and pitch distribution. The main idea of this application was to determine the blade shape that would satisfy the kinematic boundary condition on its surface with the prescribed bound circulation distribution over it. In this paper a simplified lifting surface method is presented – in which the 3D task for the entire blade is replaced by a set of 2D tasks for subsequent blade section profiles.

Blade Section Profile Array Lifting Surface Design Method for Marine Screw Propeller Blade

Gdańsk, Poland Gdańsk University of Technology

Polish Maritime Research

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The lifting surface model is widely used in screw propeller design and analysis applications. It serves as a reliable tool for determination of the propeller...

Blade Section Profile Array Lifting Surface Design Method for Marine Screw Propeller Blade

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 134 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2019-0075

Keywords
marine propeller, lifting surface, blade section profile, design

© 2019 Przemysław Król, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Blade Section Profile Array Lifting Surface Design Method for Marine Screw Propeller Blade

Published Online: Dec 31, 2019

Page range: 134 - 141

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2019-0075

Keywordsmarine propeller, lifting surface, blade section profile, design

© 2019 Przemysław Król, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
marine propeller, lifting surface, blade section profile, design