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BC,
Cavitation is caused be the Prop not having enough water in Choppy Sea. Reduction Gearing has nothing to do with it. You're a Pretty Poor sailer if you are depending on a small Aux, Engine to replace Sails in a Seaway. Even Trawlers hoist a steadying Sail in a Seaway to improve ride quality http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomPage |
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Thom Stewart wrote: BC, Cavitation is caused be the Prop not having enough water in Choppy Sea. Cavitation is caused by the prop spinning too fast for the forward motion of the vessel. Reduction Gearing has nothing to do with it. Reduction gearing has EVERYTHING to do with it. PDW |
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"Peter" wrote in message oups.com... Cavitation is caused by the prop spinning too fast for the forward motion of the vessel. Cavitation is caused by water not being able to move fast enough to fill low pressure spaces created around such things as a propeller. A spinning disc has no forward speed regardless of RPM yet there is no cavitation. A propeller is a rotating wing and the low pressure side causes the water to "boil", hencce the creation of cavitation. Higher RPM gives higher tangentail blade speeds and greater pressure differential between the faces of the prop. |
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"Peter" wrote
Cavitation is caused by the prop spinning too fast for the forward motion of the vessel. Gilligan wrote: Cavitation is caused by water not being able to move fast enough to fill low pressure spaces created around such things as a propeller. Which is caused by... ? You're both right. Peter is talking about the cause on a macro scale. ... A spinning disc has no forward speed regardless of RPM yet there is no cavitation. A propeller is a rotating wing and the low pressure side causes the water to "boil", hencce the creation of cavitation. But what makes the water boil? Increased temps due to friction? Tiny devil-spirits waving their pitchforks? .... Higher RPM gives higher tangentail blade speeds and greater pressure differential between the faces of the prop. Somewhat right, tip speed above a certain linear velocity will cause cavitation no matter the dP, and if the dP gets high enough the tip speed matters less. You could also mention the dread voodoo curse "viscous shear" which means that somebody is trying to force those lazy water molecules to move faster than they are willing. Fluid flow does a lot of things counter-intuitive to people familiar with normal physics. One of my favorite engineering profs used to say that fluid molecules are like basketballs smeared with syrup, which helps intuit the behavior. DSK |
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"DSK" wrote in message ... But what makes the water boil? Increased temps due to friction? Tiny devil-spirits waving their pitchforks? Lower pressure. .... Higher RPM gives higher tangentail blade speeds and greater pressure differential between the faces of the prop. Somewhat right, tip speed above a certain linear velocity will cause cavitation no matter the dP, Then it would be the void (low pressure) behind the propeller. There is still cavitation due to drag, which would occur with a spinning disc. You could also mention the dread voodoo curse "viscous shear" which means that somebody is trying to force those lazy water molecules to move faster than they are willing Fluid flow does a lot of things counter-intuitive to people familiar with normal physics. One of my favorite engineering profs used to say that fluid molecules are like basketballs smeared with syrup, which helps intuit the behavior. DSK |
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"Gilligan" wrote in message . .. | | "DSK" wrote in message | ... | | But what makes the water boil? Increased temps due to friction? Tiny | devil-spirits waving their pitchforks? | | | Lower pressure. Hee hee! Lower pressure never makes any liquid boil. It makes it vaporize. Boil is a subjective term. It only refers to that temperature at atmospheric pressure at which a liquid vaporizes. Some engineer you are Mr. Gilligan! Paladin -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling
Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to a temperature such that its vapor pressure is above that of the surroundings, such as air pressure. Thus, a liquid may also boil when the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere is sufficiently reduced, such as the use of a vacuum pump or at high altitudes. Boiling occurs in three characteristic stages, which are nucleate, transition and film boiling. These stages generally take place from low to high surface temperatures, respectively. Nucleate boiling is characterized by the incipience and growth of bubbles on a heated surface, which rise from discrete points on a surface, whose temperature is only slightly above the liquid’s saturation temperature. In general, the number of nucleation sites are increased by an increasing surface temperature. An irregular surface of the boiling vessel (i.e. increased surface roughness) can create additional nucleation sites, while an exceptionally smooth surface (such as glass) lends itself to superheating. When the surface temperature reaches a maximum value, the critical superheat, vapor begins to form faster than liquid can reach the surface. Thus, the heated surface suddenly becomes covered with a vapor layer. Because of the vapor layer’s lower thermal conductivity, this vapor layer insulates the surface. This condition of a vapor film insulating the surface from the liquid characterizes film boiling. Transition boiling may be defined as the unstable boiling, which occurs at surface temperatures between the maximum attainable in nucleate and the minimum attainable in film boiling. |
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Oh Bull **** Pete
You posted; "Reduction gearing has EVERYTHING to do with it." It seems you've elected to ignore, Prop Pitch, Prop Size, and the Medium it is operating in. You have also neglected to recognize throttle control http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomPage |
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"Thom Stewart" wrote in message ... | Oh Bull **** Pete | | You posted; "Reduction gearing has EVERYTHING to do with it." | | It seems you've elected to ignore, Prop Pitch, Prop Size, and the Medium | it is operating in. You have also neglected to recognize throttle | control | Other things being equal a larger prop with more pitch and lower gearing is more efficient and delivers more drive per BTU of fuel used. A one bladed prop would be most efficient but there is a problem balancing such a thing. Three-bladed props seem to be a very good compromise for powering sailing yachts with their inherent slow velocity through the water. Paladin -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Pal(?)
Once again you've neglected to consider the drag created when not using the engine. Please look at the Subject heading. Then try to remember what kind of Prop was being referred two AND in what kind of sea condition were being described. You can "Color me Gone" with this reply. http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomPage |
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