Supercavitating 3-D Hydrofoils and Propellers: Prediction of Performance and Design

Abstract

Recent numerical techniques for the prediction of cavitating flows, in linear and nonlinear theories, are applied on super-cavitating 2-D, 3-D hydrofoils and propellers. Some of these techniques, when incorporated within a non-linear optimization algorithm, can lead to efficient supercavitating hydrofoil or propeller designs. This lecture will address 3-D supercavitating hydrofoils, supercavitating and surface-piercing propellers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADP012091

Entities

People

  • Spyros A. Kinnas

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Element Methods
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Froude Number
  • Geometry
  • Hydrodynamics
  • Marine Propellers
  • Naval Architecture
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Propeller Blades
  • Supercavitating Propellers
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Operations Research