Voith Schneider Propeller
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Voith Schneider Propeller
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#2This reads a lot like an advertisement.
The linked page [[Cyclorotor]] is more neutral and has more information on the design and applications outside of marine vessels:
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#3See a tug showing off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6uNECa_X8Q
Voith is the only company producing those, even though the patent has expired.
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#4The coolest recent development in marine propellers is toroidal propellers which are now commercially available and seem to perform significantly better than standard propellers: https://www.sharrowmarine.com/
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#6The coolest recent development in marine propellers is toroidal propellers which are now commercially available and seem to perform significantly better than standard propellers: https://www.sharrowmarine.com/
That website seems to no useful information; only marketing speak about how great it is... Do you know of a good source on how toroidal propellers work and the engineering behind them?
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#7The coolest recent development in marine propellers is toroidal propellers which are now commercially available and seem to perform significantly better than standard propellers: https://www.sharrowmarine.com/
That website seems to no useful information; only marketing speak about how great it is... Do you know of a good source on how toroidal propellers work and the engineering behind them?
Here you are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_propeller
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#8I recommend this video with animations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrBF9BWYAZY
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#9From a resilience POV, my guess would be that failure of any one blade would botch the system overall. Maybe that is why many diagrams show them installed in pairs. (I would guess each operates in a different direction for angular momentum reasons.) I have no idea about overall reliability.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That website seems to no useful information; only marketing speak about how great it is... Do you know of a good source on how toroidal propellers work and the engineering behind them?
Here you are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal_propeller
Uhm... The article lacks quite a few citations.