On the accuracy of predicting cavitation impact loads on marine propellers

Predicting the cavitation impact loads on a propeller surface using numerical tools is becoming essential, as the demand for more efficient designs, stretched to the limit, is increasing. One of the possible design limits is governed by cavitation erosion. The accuracy of estimating such loads, using a URANS approach, has been investigated. We follow the energy balance approach by (Schenke and van Terwisga, 2019), (Schenke et al., 2019), where...