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  • High- and low-fidelity investigations of flexible propeller blades [Elektronski vir]
    Sodja, Jurij ...
    High- and low-fidelity fluid-structure interaction analyses of flexible propeller blades are compared in this paper. High-fidelity fluid-structure interaction analysis are performed using coupled ... computational fluid dynamics and computational structural dynamics commercial codes, whereas low-fidelity analysis are based on coupled extended blade element momentum model and nonlinear beam theory. Three selected flexible propeller blade geometries are analyzed: straight, backward swept, and forward swept blades. The backward swept and forward swept blades are designed to emphasize the influence of the blade flexibility on the blade performance. A straight blade was selected in order to serve as a reference. In the course of the study, integral thrust and breaking power as well as their respective distributions along the blades are compared at different advancing ratios. Blade deflections are also analyzed.
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2014
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 13365019