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Propellor turning or shrouded?
A turning prop can be made to do work, charging a battery, and when
doing so creates more drag than a stalled one, so they say. If a shroud were to streamline a stalled prop, would not the drag decrease significantly? Could a retractable shroud be allowed to slide down a prop shaft to fair a stalled prop? How could it be reliably retracted to allow the prop to be used after a voyage spent growing barnacles? Perhaps the shroud could retract up into the hull with the prop stopped in a certain position? Or would such a problem not occur if the shroud retractor and prop was used many days for a few hours to charge up the battery, etc? Perhaps a proper variable pitch prop would be better efficiency given no need for the weight of a gearbox? Terry K |
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Terry Spragg wrote:
Could a retractable shroud be allowed to slide down a prop shaft to fair a stalled prop? How could it be reliably retracted to allow the prop to be used after a voyage spent growing barnacles? Perhaps the shroud could retract up into the hull with the prop stopped in a certain position? Couldn't the acceleration of water created by venturi effect of a properly designed shroud eliminate or at least reduce the induced drag characteristic of a free-wheeling prop under the "load" of recharging? |
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