Performance of a Family of Surface Piercing Propellers

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Experimental tests have been performed on a systematic series of surface piercing propellers with varied number of blades (4 and 5) and pitch ratio (from 0.8 to 1.4). Some aspects of scaling the performance of this kind of propulsor have been investigated. Influence of depth of immersion and shaft inclination is discussed and results for variations in these parameters are presented. Regression equations are given describing the relationship of the thrust and torque coefficients for advance coefficients above the critical values. This work is the result of a research on the performances of surface piercing propellers undertaken by the University of Genoa and was partly developed as a doctoral thesis on surface piaercing propellers.

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