05 - Propulsion
LOW-SPEED PROPELLER FOR UAV APPLICATIONS, FROM DESIGN TO EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION
M. Crona¹, S. Dinger¹, P. Samuelsson¹, H. Strömfeldt¹, I. Jonsson¹; ¹Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
The design and evaluation of a low-speed UAV propeller using OPTOPROP, a blade element momentum theory design tool is presented. It includes CFD and wind tunnel tests. The study emphasizes the integration of Xfoil to handle low Reynolds number airfoil data for low-speed applications, improving the match between BLMT and CFD by up to 10%