Practical Ship Hydrodynamics
Practical Ship Hydrodynamics
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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.