@article{Hydro-elastic:11102,
      author = {Kumar, A and Subramanian, VA and Vijaykuma, R},
      url = {http://library.imarest.org/record/11102},
      journal = {Conference Proceedings of ICMET},
      title = {Hydro-elastic analysis of carbon composite marine  propeller using co-simulation technique},
      abstract = {Carbon fibre composite has extremely high strength, low  density and no corrosion in sea water. These  characteristics make it a favourable alternative for  consideration as material for marine screw propellers. The  obvious advantages are lightweight propeller, resistance to  corrosion, and possibly favourable fatigue characteristics.  As against this, the relatively higher flexibility of  material needs investigation since change of geometry due  to load on the blades can affect the hydrodynamic  performance. These materials are reduced stiffness and  anisotropic in nature, and therefore hydro-elastic based  performance analysis is required to understand their  performance in operating condition. The current study  focuses on numerical investigation for the hydro-elastic  based performance analysis of a composite marine propeller  in open water condition. The procedure involves the  coupling of  Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Equation  (RANSE) based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solver  with the Finite Element Method (FEM) solver using  Co-Simulation technique. The open water characteristics  including thrust coefficient (KT), torque coefficient (KQ),  and open water efficiency (ηo ) analyzed as a function of  the advance ratio (J). This paper presents a comparison of  the hydrodynamic performance between the composite  propeller and a conventional steel propeller taking into  account the structural response under loading. The results  for the composite propeller show improved thrust value in  comparison with the conventional metallic propeller.},
      recid = {11102},
      address = {2019-11-05},
}