The present application proposes a high-efficiency and high-precision
propeller slipstream numerical
simulation method: firstly, the isolated
propeller under actual working conditions is numerically simulated by using the frozen rotor method, the
axial force and the circumferential force of the blade element are extracted by integrating the blade
surface pressure and
friction force at different radial positions, and the size and phase of the blade load are corrected by a semi-empirical method; then, the
axial force and the circumferential force of the blade at the same
radial position and different phases are taken as a group of fitting points, the fitting parameters based on the blade element
momentum theory are obtained, and the non-uniform
load distribution of the disc is predicted; next, the disc load is time-averaged, and the work of the
propeller is converted into the axial and circumferential pressure increments of the excitation disc; finally, the pressure increments of the excitation disc are added to the
momentum equation in the form of volume force source term, and then the
slipstream effect is simulated. The method has both the calculation accuracy of the unsteady method and the calculation efficiency of the quasi-steady method, and has good
engineering practicability.