In the quest for ever-greater efficiency, reliability, and sustainability, propeller design sits at the nexus of fluid mechanics, materials science, and advanced manufacturing. From cargo ships ...

Hydrocomp’s newest release of PropCad incorporates 3 years of enhancements. Propellers are surprisingly complex devices, especially considering most are a solid piece of metal with no moving parts.

Abstract: Propeller design is a significant process that is overlooked in many design situations. Using propeller vortex lifting line code and two-dimensional analysis with Brockett diagrams, a ...

Europe has recently voiced very high ambitions for reducing Aircraft community noise, with the Advisory Council for Aviation Research and Innovation in Europe (ACARE) pushing for a 65% noise reduction ...

Combination of carbon, glass and epoxy resin produces a strong replacement for nickel/aluminum/bronze metal, the current propeller standard. Damage-tolerant reinforcing fabric strengthens highly ...

By using two propellers that rotate in opposite directions, a ship can use less energy to move forward. New knowledge means ...

Hydrocomp’s ProCad facilitates in-house Process Control of Propeller Design and Manufacture. Maritime Tactical Systems Inc. (MARTAC) is a Florida-based company building next-generation unmanned ...

A digitizer captured the dimensions of one of the propeller blades on the fishing vessel named Harmony. A laser tracker helped measure a 25-year-old propeller in just a few hours as a means of ...