WATERJET PROPULSION SYSTEM TESTED IN A WIND TUNNEL AND COMPARED WITH NUMERICAL SIMULATION

摘要

As waterjet technology continues to grow, methods of testing and evaluating waterjet propulsion systems have emerged and been refined. The focus of this paper is to report on the gains to be made through larger scale testing of a waterjet system using a wind tunnel and to study the applicability of CFD analysis to evaluate the propulsive performance of a waterjet unit.