Hydrodynamic performance of coaxial contra-rotating propeller (CCRP) for large ships

Hassan Ghassemi

doi:10.2478/v10012-008-0006-8

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Hydrodynamic performance of coaxial contra-rotating propeller (CCRP) for large ships

Polish Maritime Research

Volume 16 (2009): Issue 1 (January 2009)

By: Hassan Ghassemi

Open Access

|Apr 2009

Abstract

This paper describes a coaxial contra-rotating propeller (CCRP) system to calculate the hydrodynamic characteristics and then obtain the optimum operational condition to install on two different large bulk carrier and VLCC. The method is based on boundary element method (BEM) to obtain the hydrodynamic performance of any complicated configuration such as CRP system, and then the optimum propeller data is obtained by the systematical method at the design condition. We prepared a software package code, namely SPD (Ship Propeller Design), which has model mesh generation, solver and numerical output results. The comparison of the propulsive performance was made between the propeller alone and CRP arrangement. Major finding include good agreement between predictions using the numerical code and experimental data for both ships.

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