Composites are potential replacement materials for marine propellers due to their benefits
including high strength-to-weight ratio, high environmental and fatigue resistance, dam** …

Understanding the behaviour of composite marine propellers during operating conditions is
a need of the present era since they emerge as a potential replacement for conventional …

Flexible hydrofoils can be regarded as the simplified lifting bodies of composite propellers,
and these hydrofoils are suitable for use in the study of the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) …

In the past several decades, many papers have been published on fluid–structure coupled
calculations to analyse the hydro-elastic response of flexible (composite) propellers. The …

The propulsive efficiency of a shape adaptive composite propeller increases with passive
pitch (twist) change under a hydrodynamic load. These adaptive marine propellers are …

This paper aims to assess a new fluid–structure interaction (FSI) coupling approach for the
vp1304 propeller to predict pressure and stress distributions with a low-cost and high …

The objective of the present study is to fabricate three kinds of flexible propellers and to
compare their performance characteristics. The flexibility of the flexible propeller is strongly …

The primary objective of this paper is to present cavitation tunnel tests performed on an
optimised shape-adaptive composite hydrofoil and compare the results to other composite …

Marine propellers are designed to work for a particular operating condition. However, a
propeller often requires to operate at different off-design conditions, when its hydrodynamic …

The bend-twist coupling of fibre-reinforced composite laminates has been studied
extensively to introduce self-adjustment in pitch angle of marine propellers for improving the …