TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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LIST OF FIGURES iii 



TABLE iv 



NOTATION V 



ABSTRACT 1 



INTRODUCTION 1 



OVERVIEW OF PSP 2 



MODIFICATION TO PSF 4 



RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 8 



TWO-DIMENSIONAL AIRFOIL SECTIONS 8 



IHI MODEL PROPELLER MP 282 8 



DTNSRDC PROPELLER 4718 10 



NSMB MODEL PROPELLER 11 



COMPARISON WITH OTHER PROCEDURES 11 



SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 12 



RECOMMENDATIONS 13 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 13 



REFERENCES 15 



APPENDIX - PRESSURE IN A MOVING FRAME OF REFERENCE 17 



LIST OF FIGURES 



1 - Fixed and Rotating Coordinate Systems for a Right-Hand- 



Rotation Propeller 21 



2 - Discretization of Blade Singularities 22 



3 - Horseshoe Vortices on Blade and in Wake 23 



4 - Trailing Wake Geometry after Wake Alignment 24 



5 - Discrete Singularity Distribution for Two-Dimensional 



Airfoil Section 25 



