Film C1: Boat propeller CFD, modeling and computational fluid dynamics calculation

Name: Film C1: Boat propeller CFD, modeling and computational fluid dynamics calculation
Uploaded: 2026-09-29T08:00:00+02:00
Duration: 5 min 34 s
Description: A 7-blade marine propeller modeled in the Heliciel designer by the blade element method (BEM), then sent to the Heliciel PRO CFD bench in one menu: mesh preset, meshing, CFD calculation in two phases. Real thrust compared with BEM, pressure on both faces of the blades, cavitation check, velocity cuts, iso-surfaces and flow lines.

HELICIEL PRO CFD video tutorial, film C1

A 7-blade marine propeller modeled in the Heliciel designer by the blade element method (BEM), then sent to the Heliciel PRO CFD bench in one menu: mesh preset, meshing, CFD calculation in two phases. Real thrust compared with BEM, pressure on both faces of the blades, cavitation check, velocity cuts, iso-surfaces and flow lines.

Subtitles: English SRT file

Film chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:29 The boat propeller modeled in the designer (BEM)
1:04 From the designer to the CFD bench
1:28 Choosing the mesh preset
2:01 CFD thrust compared with BEM
2:47 Pressure on the blades
3:24 Cavitation check
3:55 Velocity cuts and iso-surfaces
4:44 Flow lines
5:04 Conclusion

Going further: the case study: boat propeller CFD, thrust and pressure on the blades

Next film: Film C2: Drone propeller CFD, hover, from model to result in six minutes

The whole series: HELICIEL PRO CFD tutorials and videos

Also on YouTube (English voice, French audio track and subtitles): https://youtu.be/B7-jGRSYpes