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Propellers 55<br />

2.5.2 Open-water tests<br />

Although in reality the propeller operates in the highly non-uniform ship wake,<br />

a standard propeller test is performed in uniform flow yielding the so-called<br />

open-water characteristics, namely thrust, torque, and propeller efficiency.<br />

The model scale for the model propeller should be the same as for the ship<br />

model in the propulsion tests. For many propulsion tests, the ship model scale<br />

is determined by the stock propeller, i.e. the closest propeller to the optimum<br />

propeller on stock at a model basin. The similarity laws (see section 1.2,<br />

Chapter 1) determine for geometrical and Froude similarity:<br />

� � � �<br />

VA VA<br />

D<br />

n Ð D s n Ð D m<br />

In other words, the advance number J D VA/⊲nD⊳ is the same for model and<br />

full scale. J has thus a similar role for the propeller as the Froude number<br />

Fn has for the ship. VA is the average inflow speed to the propeller, n the<br />

propeller rpm, and D the propeller diameter. Ð n Ð D is the speed of a point<br />

at the tip of a propeller blade in circumferential direction.<br />

The Reynolds number for a propeller is usually based on the chord length<br />

of one blade at 0.7 of the propeller radius and the absolute value of the local<br />

velocity VR at this point. VR is the absolute value of the vector sum of inflow<br />

velocity VA and circumferential velocity:<br />

VR D<br />

�<br />

V2 A C ⊲0.7 nD⊳2<br />

Propeller model tests are performed for geometrical and Froude similarity. It<br />

is not possible to keep Reynolds similarity at the same time. Therefore, as in<br />

ship model tests, corrections for viscous effects are necessary in scaling to full<br />

scale. ITTC 1978 recommends the following empirical corrections:<br />

� c<br />

KTs D KTm 0.3 Ð Z Ð<br />

KQs D KQm C 0.25 Ð Z Ð<br />

D<br />

�<br />

� c �<br />

D<br />

rD0.7<br />

rD0.7<br />

Ð P<br />

Ð 1CD<br />

D<br />

Ð 1CD<br />

c is the propeller blade chord length at 0.7R, R the propeller radius, 1CD D<br />

CDm CDs is a correction for the propeller resistance coefficient with:<br />

�<br />

CDm D 2 Ð<br />

�<br />

CDs D 2 Ð<br />

1 C 2 t<br />

c<br />

1 C 2 t<br />

c<br />

� �<br />

0.044<br />

Ð<br />

R 1/6<br />

n<br />

5<br />

R 2/3<br />

�<br />

n<br />

� �<br />

Ð 1.89 C 1.62 log<br />

� c<br />

kp<br />

�� 2.5<br />

Here t is the (maximum) propeller blade thickness, Rn is the Reynolds number<br />

based on VR, both taken at 0.7R. kp is the propeller surface roughness, taken<br />

as 3 Ð 10 5 if not known otherwise.

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