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ABSTRACT
Marine ducted propellers are rotating duct fan that are used on tugs and trawlers which creates a greater
propulsive thrust force to drive over a water medium on heavy working condition in harbour. This paper progresses with
comprehensive information of marine ducted propeller. Which blade made of aluminum alloy and duct of alloy steel is
designed and analyzed with various blade formations 4 and 5 separately and to check the performances of each blade
individually to show which blade performs efficiently better with maximum velocity rate under stream line motion on
water at dynamic condition. Ducted propeller is modeled in solid works. Hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analyses of each
blade are performed with ANSYS workbench.
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Figure-7. Stress analysis of a 5-blade arrangement Figure-10. Stress analysis of a 4-blade arrangement
propeller on hydrostatic loading. propeller on hydrostatic loading.
Figure-8. Strain analysis of a 5-blade arrangement Figure-11. Strain analysis of a 4-blade arrangement
propeller on hydrostatic loading. propeller on hydrostatic loading.
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6. HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS
Dynamic analysis is performed when both the
medium are in motion during such process a dynamic Figure-14. Dynamic analysis of 2-blade propeller.
pressure is created over the physical component
calculating the pressure is said to be hydrodynamic
pressure. Here in this case the propeller with four different
arrangements are is analyzed in CFX software individually
to check the performances of propeller. Figure-13 shows
the dynamic performance of a propeller
Figure-13. Dynamic analysis of propeller. Figure-15. 5-blade water flow condition during stream
line motion.
Table-4. Shows the boundary layer condition of
dynamic analysis. B. 4-bladed propeller dynamic analysis
S. No. Boundary parameter Value
1 Water angular velocity 35 rad/sec
2 Inlet velocity 50 m/s
3 Pressure range 0~1pascal
4 Blade angular velocity 35 rad/sec
5 Stream line points 150 points
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140
120
80
60
40
20
0
4‐Blade 5‐Blade
Maximum 119.1 117
8. CONCLUSIONS
In this project, static and dynamic analysis is
performed on ducted propeller blade with 4-blade and 5-
blade arrangements. Performance of each propeller blade
Figure-17. 4-blade water flow condition during stream is checked by applying hydrostatic and hydrodynamic
line motion. loading. During the loading condition 4-blade ducted
propeller performs at 1.303 maximum deflections (mm) at
7. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS hydrostatic loading and 119.2 maximum stream line
From the dynamic analysis the best performed velocity rate (m/s) at hydrodynamic condition. Hence 4-
propeller with better stream line motion velocity is blade ducted propeller performs best and efficiently than
derived. that of 5-blade ducted propeller.
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