Shadowing Effect Analyzing for Propeller-Ice Milling Condition With Peridynamics

During the research of propeller-ice contact process, we found that shadowing effect has great influence on the ice loads of propeller blade. Therefore, more study in the shadowing effect would be helpful to solve the complicated propeller-ice contact problem. A numerical simulation model is established based on the coupling of peridynamics and panel method in this paper, and ice force for the whole blade and for blade back and blade face separately are obtained through the calculation of the simulation model. The influence law to ice loads of shadowing effect would be revealed clearly by comparing the loads of blade face with the loads of blade back .On this basis, more research is carried out on the mechanism of shadowing effect. In addition, a new calculation formula for shadowing coefficient is put forward in this paper. The results show that the influence of shadowing effect on propeller loads is well predicted by the calculation result of shadowing coefficient formula.