A Shape Optimization Pipeline for Marine Propellers by means of Reduced Order Modeling Techniques

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a shape optimization pipeline for propeller blades, applied to naval applications. The geometrical features of a blade are exploited to parametrize it, allowing to obtain deformed blades by perturbating their parameters. The optimization is performed using a genetic algorithm that exploits the computational speed-up of reduced order models to maximize the efficiency of a given propeller. A standard offline-online procedure is exploited to construct the reduced-order model. In an expensive offline phase, the full order model, which reproduces an open water test, is set up in the open-source software OpenFOAM and the same full order setting is used to run the CFD simulations for all the deformed propellers. The collected high-fidelity snapshots and the deformed parameters are used in the online stage to build the non-intrusive reduced-order model. This paper provides a proof of concept of the pipeline proposed, where the optimized propeller improves the efficiency of the original propeller.

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