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Angled tunnel ends for
steel/ aluminium hulls
Cavitation
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High water force
while underway
High water force
while underway
from wave contact
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Tunnel ends
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Rounded tunnel ends will maximise thrust and minimise noise and cavitation.
For best performance round the tunnel connection to the hull-side as much as possible. The minimum rounding has a radius of 10% of the diameter of
the tunnel.
Signi cant advantages of a rounded tunnel over a sharp tunnel to hull connections are:
1. A rounded tunnel end will prevent the creation of turbulence/ cavitation created from a sharp tunnel end when water passes by the tunnel.
- The turbulence/ cavitation will block the outer area of the tunnel and thereby reduces the eff ective tunnel diameter and thrust.
- Turbulence/ cavitation on the propeller will lessen the thrusters performance and create excess noise.
2. For steel/ aluminium hulls angled tunnel ends also off er similar performance as a rounded connection.
3. A rounded tunnel end makes the thruster draw water from along the hull-side, creating a vacuum that will suck the boat sideways and thereby give
additional thrust.
- With a sharp tunnel end, the thruster will be unable to take water from along the hull-side, and you will not gain the desired vacuum and
additional thrust. This “free” extra thrust in optimal installations be 30 - 40% of the total thrust.
(NB: A Side-power thruster propeller does not produce cavitation at working speed. Therefore, any cavitation and cavitation noise in the
tunnel will be caused during improper tunnel installation.)
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