Design and simulation of propeller shaft for high speed mud boat - study for improvement

Abstract

As part of the nation that surrounded by the sea and mud at his cost, the current high speed mud boat that were used by Maritime Malaysia were sole made to working on the water. The purpose of this research is to design the propeller that could working in two medium which is water and mud. There is many type of propeller that were now available and some are still in the research and development process, among those this research will focus on designing the fixed pitch acceleration duct type propeller and contra rotating propeller at which both type are well established. There is so many methods available to justify the claim of this research, however this research will focus on the Momentum theory, cantilever method and also the simulation will be run on CATIA Software. All the findings will be tabled and the data will be plotted on graph so that the making of observation, inference and conclusion will be much easier. This research will solely use CATIA as the medium of computer aided design (CAD) and simulation.