简介:TheReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)method,alongwiththeFluentsoftwarepackage,wasusedtostudythesteadyandunsteadyinteractionofpropellersandrudderswithadditionalthrustfins.Theslidingmeshmodelwasemployedtosimulateunsteadyinteractionsbetweentheblades,therudderandthethrustfins.Basedonthenumericalresults,thepressuredistributiononthepropellerandtheefficiencyofthefinswerecalculatedasafunctionoftheattackangle.TheRANSresultswerecomparedwithresultscalculatedbythepotentialmethod.ItwasfoundthattheresultsforthepotentialmethodandtheRANSmethodhavegoodconsistency,buttheyyieldmaximumefficienciesforthefins,andthuscorrespondingattackangles,thatarenotidentical.