A self-contained, rapid, Computer Aided Design (CAD) program for a desk top computer (i.e. HP 9845) was developed for a first cut approximation for the design of a supercavitating propeller blade. This program eliminated the error-prone, tedious interpolation of empirical data graphs by providing approximations and curve fitting techniques to augment existing formulae. The complex Goldstein function and the inexact Prandtl approximation were replaced by a more simple function, the Wilson factor, that maintained the confidence level of the manual calculations. (Author)


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    Title :

    A simple interactive program to design supercavitating propeller blades


    Additional title:

    Einfaches interaktives Programm fuer den Entwurf vollkavitierender Propellerschaufeln


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    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    85 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English