Software Warnings 4) Indicates special care must be taken when using this element of software. 5) Indicates a special point which the user of the associate software element should be aware of. 6) Indicates a point of interest or further explanation. Advance ratio will tell you the intended design speed of the prop. Lets compare a 5 inch prop with advance ratio of.51 to a 5 inch with an advance ratio of.25 (maybe soon to come ). RPM is a mainly a function of motor KV and battery voltage so for one quad set up a higher advance ratio (.51 in this case) will perform and is intended to fly at.

Compatibility Info

Propgen has been tested and is known to work with Windows XP 32 bit, Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit, and Ubuntu Linux 32 bit. All testing has been with Sun's Java runtime.

PropGen will not run on 64 bit Linux - this should be fixed in the next release.

Overview

PropGen is agnostic as to whether you're working with a power-turbine or propeller. If you specify positive KWatts, for example, you are supplying energy and operating in propeller mode, generating thrust. If you specify negative KWatts, you are extracting energy from the fluid and operating as a generator. If your KWatt request (or lbs thrust, or SHP, etc) exceeds device capacity then PropGen will eventually give up and output the closest value along with warning message stating 'COULD NOT CONVERGE ON CP OR CT', and possibly other warnings such as 'STALLED ROTOR'.

PropGen has known wake stability issues when you get close to (positive or negative) section stall angles. If this happens a 'POOR WAKE ANGLE CONVERGENCE: xx.xxxx degrees' warning is printed. If the xx.xxxx value is less than 10 degrees the solution could be close enough.. that's for you to decide. Often, a small input change is all that's needed to get a converged wake; e.g. change 20 SHP to 20.1 SHP, etc. Wake stability issues should be addressed within the next 2 releases.

Aircraft Propellers

All performance and inverse design features are enabled. There are no known limitations.

Wind Turbines

All performance features are enabled; however, the wake sometimes becomes unstable for deep stall scenarios, which are typical of stall regulated wind turbines. If you have a scenario that doesn't converge, try making a small input change (e.g. change BETA from 5 degrees to 4.9 degrees, or change power from -20 Kw to -20.1 Kw; etc).. often that's all it takes to get a converged solution. If you get a converged solution it's very likely a good one.

There should be no performance computation issues with variable pitch wind turbines.

Remember to specify negative power values when doing turbine computations.. and positive ones for propellers.

The inverse design feature is not yet supported for wind turbines.

Marine Propellers

All performance and inverse design features are enabled. Aside from a lack of accounting for cavitation, there are no known limitations (inviscid considerations aside). You'll need to manually define fluid properties as described in Alternate Fluids and Atmospheres.

Marine Turbines

Capabilities and limitations are the same as Wind Turbines, discussed above. You'll need to manually define fluid properties as described in Alternate Fluids and Atmospheres. The most likely usage model for this is in the application of tidal power generation.

PropGen is still in development and the planned feature set is below. Time available for this project is in constant flux - don't be disappointed if target dates slip.

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Feature/Description	Complex	Priority	Target
Polar Data: Contributions will be added to the dataset after review. See dataset requirements for details.	low	yes	TBD
DXF: output DXF files for designs. Look here for instructions on how to generate these manually for now.	medium	yes	TBD
Wind Turbines: inverse design improvements	high	yes	Apr'10
DXF: output visualization of wake vortex sheet.. because it looks cool.	low-medium	no	TBD
Add a user tunable 'stall delay model' for the polar data.	low	no	TBD
Add a user tunable 'wake dissipation model'.	low	no	TBD

The range of airfoils available to PropGen is limited to that supplied with the distribution. I intend to constantly expand the database as time permits. If you have a 'full array' of polar data (CL, CD, alpha, and geometry) and are willing to share it with the world, then contact me and I will review then add the data (see dataset requirements for an idea of what's needed). That data will be available to all PropGen users.

Jc Propeller Design Program V. 3.11 Free

If you want to use proprietary airfoils, then you need to request an unlocked version of PropGen.

Current Airfoil Datasets

Dataset (donated by)	Description and Derivation
NACA_65 (self)	This data was extracted from Appendix B of 'Summary of Propeller Design Procedures and Data' by Borst. The data is mostly based upon wind tunnel tests, but there's also a fair amount of heuristic and interpolated data. Dataset ranges: * Camber: -0.7 --> +0.7 * Mach: 0.3-->1.6 * Reynolds: 1000000-->3000000 * T/C: 0.04-->0.3 * Alpha: -30 --> +30
S809_Re1M (self)	This set contains a single S809 airfoil at Re = 1M. The S809 was optimised for stall regulated wind-turbines. The data was extracted from a variety of sources described at CER_tapered_10m_analysis.htm. Dataset ranges: * Camber: ~0 * Mach: ~0 * Reynolds: 1000000 * T/C: 0.21 * Alpha: -40-->40

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v0.2.3-Beta Overview

To install/execute on Windows or Linux: simply unzip and then double click PropGen.jar.. the same zip file works with both OSes. Review the readme file if there are issues.

Changes/fixes: Jihosoft itunes backup extractor 7.4 6 registration key.

Minor bug fixes and addition of new stall regulated and fixed pitch wind turbine models.

v0.2.2-Beta Overview

Jc Propeller Design Program V. 3.11 Pdf

Changes/fixes:

Handle failures more gracefully when presented with over challenging design inputs.
Extended NACA 65 dataset to include negative cambers (needed for wind turbine designs)
Added a three megawatt utility scale wind turbine example.

v0.2.1-Beta Overview

UI changes/fixes:

Minor bug fixes.
Made UI Windows/Linux agnostic.

Computation lib changes:

Make business logic Windows/Linux agnostic.

Other:

Added a Mars aircraft propeller design. This is a good primer on using arbitrary fluids.

v0.2.0-Beta Overview