PropElements

What is PropElements?

Propeller design for performance

Optimize and understand your propeller

HydroComp's PropElements bring a specialized tool to a broader engineering community. PropElements was designed not only for propeller specialists and manufacturers, but also for naval architects and vehicle designers.

Propeller performance adapted to the track

PropElements provides an optimized design stage between the parametric specification and the full 3D design for manufacturing. It relies on the system's specification of the necessary propeller characteristics (such as those of NavCad) to design or evaluate a propeller in more detail to meet the ship's mission objectives.

Many large and merchant ships utilize custom propellers, and smaller ships, yachts, and workboats also appreciate the benefits of a custom propeller. Naval architects now have a new set of technical challenges to ensure acceptable performance and compliance with design requirements. To take full advantage of the benefits that custom or semi-custom propellers provide—or evaluate them in service—naval architects should look for a different type of propeller calculation. Extensive validation studies for PropElements confirm that it is unparalleled in the fidelity of the calculations and the efficiency of the workflow.

Add propeller Calcs to your workflow

PropElements' numerous import/export options make it an important companion to our NavCad and PropCad software, as well as the perfect preprocessor for higher-order, CFD, and FEA flow codes. Connect the KT-KQ data to NavCad to get the performance prediction of the "Aligned Series" propeller. Then, when the propeller design for performance has been completed with PropElements, your design for manufacturing can be carried out in PropCad.

CFD-friendly analysis

A closely coupled connection between a CFD code and the HydroComp PropElements software offers a high-fidelity and highly efficient alternative to an actuator disk. Utilizing easy-to-implement features for object-oriented scripting and cross-product connectivity, it is the ideal propeller performance server for integrated propeller analysis with CFD.

PropElements Features

Comprehensive propeller design and analysis

1.             Calculation tool adapted to Wake for analysis or design

2.             Support for open or ducted propellers, directed by hubs or rims

3.             Proprietary features and calibration for quantitative accuracy

4.             Design of optimal radial distributions

5.             Analysis of thrust and power performance

6.             Review of cavitation and other criteria

7.             Blade strength using beam theory

8.             Creation and export of KT-KQ curves

9.             Import/export to CAD/CAM/CFD/FEA

10.          Professional reports and installments

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768