Performance optimization of marine propellers

Recently a Wide Chord Tip (WCT) propeller has been developed and applied to a commercial ship by STX Offshore & Shipbuilding. It is reported that the WCT propeller significantly reduces pressure fluctuations and also ship's noise and vibration. On the sea trial, vibration magnitude in the a...

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Main Authors: Chang-Sup Lee, Young-Dal Choi, Byoung-Kwon Ahn, Myoung-Sup Shin, Hyun-Gil Jang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-12-01
Series:International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2092678216302503