VACCARO C.

Experimental tests in model-scale are the currently established (and more reliable) methods for the propeller acoustic characterization. However, they are affected by uncertainties mostly due to scale effects, which make it difficult to consistently reproduce in model-scale some of full-scale functioning conditions. In order to cope with this...

In the present work, an analysis of a CP CLT propeller, functioning in stationary and non-stationary conditions, is presented. Results of model tests at the cavitation tunnel of the University of Genoa, in correspondence to different advance coefficients, cavitation number and inflow wake, are presented, and used in order to compare with...