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Shuli Wang, Ziang Li and Qingxin Zhang
The electric seaplane, designed for take-off and landing directly on water, incorporates additional structures such as floats to meet operational requirements. Consequently, during the take-off taxiing phase, it encounters significantly higher aerodynami...
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Catharina Moreira, Nikolai Herzog and Christian Breitsamter
Recent developments in electrical Vertical Take-off and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles show the need for a better understanding of transient aero-mechanical propeller loads for non-axial inflow conditions. The variety of vehicle configurations conceptualized w...
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Hangwen Zhang, Bochen Li, Boyang Li and Cheng Yang
A numerical method is used to evaluate the influence of propeller parameters on the aerodynamic performance of shrouded coaxial dual rotors in hover. Compared with the open-rotor configuration, the shrouded rotors reduce the tip vortex, resulting in a hi...
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Veronica Vigna and Massimo Figari
The harvesting of wind energy and its transformation into a thrust force for ship propulsion are gaining in popularity due to the expected benefit in fuel consumption and emission reductions. To exploit these benefits, a proper matching between the conve...
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Dimitra Anevlavi, Spiros Zafeiris, George Papadakis and Kostas Belibassakis
This work addresses the effects of blade tip-rake reformation on the performance of marine propellers using a low-cost potential-based vortex-lattice method (VLM) and the high fidelity artificial compressibility CFD-RANS solver MaPFlow. The primary focus...
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Chenyang Zhu, Tomaso Gaggero, Nicholas C. Makris and Purnima Ratilal
The time-dependent spectral characteristics of underwater sound radiated by an ocean vessel has complex dependencies on ship machinery, propeller dynamics, hydrodynamics of ship exhaust and motion, as well as ship board activities. Here the underwater so...
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Xinglu Xia, Dongli Ma, Liang Zhang, Xing?an Liu and Keran Cong
With the rapid development of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the blade design of a propeller suitable for VTOL aircraft with a wide range of operating conditions has become a challenging and popular task. This paper proposes a multi-object...
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Muwanika Jdiobe, Kurt Rouser, Ryan Paul and Austin Rouser
This paper presents an approach to validate a wind tunnel propeller dynamometer applicable to Group 2 unmanned aircraft. The intended use of such a dynamometer is to characterize propellers over a relevant range of sizes and operating conditions, under w...
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Jubilee Prasad Rao, Jonathan E. Holzsager, Marco M. Maia and Javier F. Diez
Coaxial rotors are utilized in multirotor aerial vehicles for the added thrust compared to independent rotors while keeping similar area footprints; however, performance losses should be considered. This experimental study analyzes the effects of varying...
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José D. Hoyos, Jesús H. Jiménez, Camilo Echavarría, Juan P. Alvarado and Germán Urrea
An aero-structural algorithm to reduce the energy consumption of a propeller-driven aircraft is developed through a propeller design method coupled with a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). A wide range of propeller parameters is considered in the optimi...
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