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This paper is aimed to study the performance of the propeller under different cavitation numbers at inclined shaft condition, and to compare the performance between the New-Section propeller and the Newton-Rader propeller. In order to calculate the effective thrust and the real efficiency for the craft, the horizontal and vertical forces which are both created by the propeller at inclined shaft are measured. When the inclined shaft angle is 8 degrees and the advance coefficient is near the propeller design point, the measrued vertical force is about 40% ~ 50% of the shaft thrust. And, the efficiency of the propeller at 8-degree shaft inclination is significantly less than that of the propeller with horizontal shaft. The experiment also shows that the efficiency of the New-Section propeller is greater than that of the Newton-Rader propeller at inclined shaft condition regardless cavitation numbers. In addition, the "Unsteady Propeller Lifting-Surface Theory" is applied to calculate the vertical force produced by the propeller at inclined shaft condition. Due to the simple mathmatical model about wake in propeller theory, the computational results are much lower than the measured values.
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