Fig. 1 Schematic of BEM theory
Fig. 2 Flowchart of calculation based on BET
Fig. 3 Propellers (left)9×4.5MR (right)16×8E
Fig. 4 Solutionix Rexcan3
Fig. 5 Extraction of airfoil section using CATIA
Fig. 6 Geometric information of airfoil w.r.t. sections (left) and mean profile (right)
Fig. 7 Angle of attack and chord length of two propellers
Fig. 8 Computational domain and generated grid around an airfoil
Fig. 9 Residual history w.r.t. iterations
Fig. 10 CL & CD history at r=0.068m(9in) and r=0.1027m(16in) at 7000 RPM
Fig. 11 CL and CD of airfoil w.r.t. the distance from the hub
Fig. 12 Thrust comparison of two propellers
Fig. 13 Torque comparison of two propellers
Table 1 Propeller(APC社) specifications
Table 2 Solutionix Rexcan3 specifications
Table 3 Parameters for EDISON CFD
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