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  2. Advance ratio - Wikipedia

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    The advance ratio is critical for determining the efficiency of a propeller. At different advance ratios, the propeller may produce more or less thrust. Engineers use this ratio to optimize the design of the propeller and the engine, ensuring that the vehicle operates efficiently at its intended cruising speed, see propeller theory.

  3. Propeller theory - Wikipedia

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    The essence of the actuator-disc theory is that if the slip is defined as the ratio of fluid velocity increase through the disc to vehicle velocity, the Froude efficiency is equal to 1/(slip + 1). [2] Thus a lightly loaded propeller with a large swept area can have a high Froude efficiency.

  4. Cyclorotor - Wikipedia

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    3.2 High advance ratio thrust and ... cycloidal propeller or ... This new marine drive could significantly improve the manoeuvrability of a ship as demonstrated in ...

  5. Geneva drive - Wikipedia

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    In the most common arrangement of the Geneva drive, the client wheel has four slots and thus advances the drive by one step at a time (each step being 90 degrees) for each full rotation of the master wheel. If the steered wheel has n slots, it advances by ⁠ 360° / n ⁠ per full rotation of the propeller wheel. The minimum number of slots in ...

  6. Propeller (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    A 6-bladed Hamilton Standard 568F propeller on an ATR 72 short-haul airliner. Lowry [27] quotes a propeller efficiency of about 73.5% at cruise for a Cessna 172.This is derived from his "Bootstrap approach" for analyzing the performance of light general aviation aircraft using fixed pitch or constant speed propellers.

  7. Propeller - Wikipedia

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    The propeller characteristics are commonly expressed as dimensionless ratios: [31] Pitch ratio PR = propeller pitch/propeller diameter, or P/D; Disk area A 0 = πD 2 /4; Expanded area ratio = A E /A 0, where expanded area A E = Expanded area of all blades outside of the hub.

  8. Blade element theory - Wikipedia

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    This is a two-bladed propeller 3 ft. in diameter, with a uniform geometrical pitch of 2.1 ft. (or a pitch-diameter ratio of 0.7). The blades have standard propeller sections based on the R.A.F-6 airfoil (Fig. 6), and the blade widths, thicknesses, and angles are as given in the first part of Table I.

  9. Contra-rotating propellers - Wikipedia

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    Contra-rotating propellers Contra-rotating propellers on the Rolls-Royce Griffon-powered P-51XR Mustang Precious Metal at the 2014 Reno Air Races. Aircraft equipped with contra-rotating propellers (CRP) [1] coaxial contra-rotating propellers, or high-speed propellers, apply the maximum power of usually a single piston engine or turboprop engine to drive a pair of coaxial propellers in contra ...