Abstract
As the modernization of marine transportation, it should be needed the strategy to improve the marine vehicle performances. The propeller is one of the important parts which has a function as an actuator during the operation of marine transportation or vehicle. The propeller design and optimization are packages to gain the best performances, included for the ducted propeller. Since the Nozzle design is one of the crucial aspects that influences the efficiency of the propeller. In the present study, the nozzle design has been proposed by using moving the propeller location based on the percentage of duct length. The propeller and nozzle were modelled in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) program packages and was testing to predict the performance using the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with Reynold-Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) method. A Kaplan type propeller is selected with 19A duct. The ducted propeller is analyzed by the Moving Rotating Frame (MRF). The computational results are validated by comparing with the experimental value of J from 0.2 to 0.8. The reasonable results were produced such the thrust, torque and efficiency trends were in good agreement with experimental data. According to the analysis, it can be concluded that by increasing 3% the duct length of the thrust increases about 2.148%
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