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Chapter 5
Case Study: Simulation of a Marine Propeller
Provided by Oceanic Consulting Corporation
Oceanic Consulting Corporation is a company, which provides marine rclated services
about design evaluation and testing. In this case study, Oceanic Consulting Corporation
provided a propeller gc.:omctry and tested thrust result for our simulation validation using
CosmosFloWorks. In a propeller testing, the results may be affected by many factors.
CosmosFloworks cannot simulate all of these factors. That is the main reason why there
arc some differences between the testing results and simulation results. The main purpose
of this case study is to verify CosmosF!oworks can provide a believable result of
propeller thrust. A known propeller geometry was provided by Oceanic Consulting
Corporation, as one of doing the simulation validation, The company had already
detennined the experimental values ofthe propeller thrust. The validation would come by
seeing ifthe simulation value is close to the experimental one. This would mean that
CosmosFloworks is a feasible tool for predicting propeller thrust.
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