New Features for NavCad

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New Features for NavCad

Monday, 11-JUL-2006 by Stephanie McArdle - EU Sales and Marketing

This summer’s round of MSU’s is just around the corner. Our project engineers have been working hard to develop substantial new features. NavCad users will be happy to see a new cavitation prediction method for those props operating in a transcavitating mode. For those of you who attended the WMTC, in London, back in March, you probably caught Don MacPherson’s presentation “Inboard Propeller Cavitation: A Practical Guide and New Performance Model (pdf).”

Also available to NavCad users is the new “inclined flow” algorithm which prevents unexpected overload and peak cavitation surprises. In addition, they will also see a new function which automatically matches propeller sizing design speed to the attainable top speed.

As always, we’ve been keeping up with industry standards and have added a new propulsion criterion, “transport efficiency”.