DocumentCode :
2763346
Title :
Human powered submarine propeller design
Author :
Ellis, Brandon ; Wacholder, D.
Volume :
5
fYear :
2003
fDate :
22-26 Sept. 2003
Firstpage :
2665
Abstract :
While all parts of a submarine contribute to its overall performance, the propeller blade design is often neglected due to the difficulties in analyzing the impact in design changes combined with a lack of previous research in blade designs for the power and speed requirements as dictated by a human powered vehicle. To aid us in the design of our propeller, we have created a program to take a set of constraints as input, create a blade design using those constraints, use a combination of theories to get a performance metric for that blade using finite element analysis, and finally to output parameters required for the manufacturing of the blade and the calculated performance of that blade. This paper discusses the techniques we used and the rational behind the tradeoffs we choose to use in our program, as well as how it and other supporting programs are allowing us to produce higher performance propellers and to continue to expand our knowledge in this area.
Keywords :
finite element analysis; underwater vehicles; finite element analysis; human powered submarine; human powered vehicle; power requirement; propeller blade design; propeller theory; speed requirements; Blades; Buildings; Constraint theory; Drag; Finite element methods; Humans; Measurement; Performance analysis; Propellers; Underwater vehicles;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS 2003. Proceedings
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-933957-30-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2003.178328
Filename :
1283002
Link To Document :
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