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A Numerical Study on Model Propeller Performance Prediction Including Transitional and Passively Controlled Boundary Layer Considerations
20 Mar 2024
Viscous flow simulations, utilising Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), have increasingly become the standard approach in the design and ...
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An Experimental Study on Visualisation and Passive Control of Model Propeller Boundary Layers
20 Mar 2024
This paper examines the complications of a laminar propeller boundary layer during towing tank model testing and proposes a solution in the form of ...
Research report
Setting new standards for model propeller testing
20 Dec 2023
What if a small modification could dramatically enhance the accuracy, interpretability and reliability of model tests used to predict ship ...
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Modelling of Laminar-to-Turbulent Flow Transition on a Marine Propeller Using a RANS Solver
15 Oct 2023
Traditionally, predicting propeller performance is based on model-scale experiments carried out in towing tanks or cavitation tunnels. These ...
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Propeller Performance Prediction in an Artificially Generated Wake Field Using RANSE
30 Sep 2019
Marine propellers usually operate behind a ship and are subject to a non-uniform inflow field due to the ship’s boundary layer and wake system. This ...
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Improving an Already Optimized Ship by Making its Stern Asymmetric
14 May 2018
A container ship with a large area propeller is optimized for minimal power and maximum quality of the inflow to the propeller. Both object ...
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Hydrodynamic working principles of Energy Saving Devices in ship propulsion systems
22 Jun 2017
Throughout the years, many types of Energy Saving Devices (ESDs) have been introduced to the naval industry, each claiming to achieve several ...
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Green retrofitting through optimisation of hull-propulsion interaction - GRIP
18 Apr 2016
In the FP7 project GRIP, partners have extensively studied Energy Saving Devices which improve the propulsive efficiency of ships. This paper gives ...
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Computational Study On Power Reduction By A Pre-Duct For A Bulk Carrier
2 Dec 2015
This paper presents computational results of the flow around the Japanese Bulk Carrier (JBC). The overall agreement with the experiments for all ...
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The Potsdam propeller test case in oblique flow - prediction of cavitation patterns and pressure pulses
4 Jun 2015
We report computations performed as part of the Second International Workshop on Cavitating Propeller Performance, using the Potsdam Propeller Test ...
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The Design and Numerical Demonstration of a New Energy Saving Device
2 Sep 2013
The present paper presents results from the ongoing European Project GRIP. This paper discusses the important steps that have been taken in the ...
Magazine
ReFRESCO plays major role in understanding and designing Energy Saving Devices
30 Aug 2013
Reading time 6 minutes
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), new insights can be obtained into the working principles of Energy Saving Devices (ESDs), which all serve ...
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The influence of the wake scale effect on the prediction of hull pressures due to cavitating propellers
15 Jun 2011
In this paper, the scale effect on the wake field of ship models is shown to be an important cause of prediction inaccuracies of hull pressure ...
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The Wageningen B-Screw Series
12 Nov 1969
The Wageningen B-screw series have been extended gradually to 21 screw series having blade numbers ranging from 2 to 7 and blade-area ratios between ...
