PropTool

Choose a tool below.

Sizing

Find optimal diameter, pitch, blade area ratio and gear ratio.

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Open Water

Open-water efficiency, thrust, torque and slip.

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Cavitation

Cavitation number, required blade area, tip clearance.

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Blade Strength

Blade root bending stress check.

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Shaft Diameter

Minimum propeller shaft diameter per rules.

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Speed Prediction

Predict vessel speed from power & hull type.

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Noise Estimate

Rough tonal noise & cavitation onset estimate.

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Data Manager

Store projects, vessels, propellers, engines locally.

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B-Series Lookup

High-fidelity Wageningen B-Series K_T / K_Q from interpolated table.

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Ducted Propeller

Kort 19A nozzle — thrust split & efficiency gain.

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Blade 2D Plan

Draw the developed blade from D, P/D, EAR, skew, rake.

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Sea-Trial Calibration

Compare measured trial data to theory; derive anchor factors.

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Scan Backfit

Reconstruct P/D & EAR from measured points or sections.

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Units & Conversion

Switch metric/imperial live across all tools.

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Gawn Lookup

Wageningen Gawn (flat-faced) K_T / K_Q open-water curves.

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MAU / MAUw

Wageningen MAU commercial series and washback MAUw open-water.

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Kaplan / High-BAR

Tip-tilted high blade-area Kaplan propellers with a folding NSC model.

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Fuel Rate

Fuel burn, endurance and range from power and SFOC.

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Tow Pull & Bollard

Towing pull, attainable tow speed and zero-speed bollard thrust.

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Shaft Angle & Cupping

Shaft-angle thrust penalty and cup-induced effective pitch gain.

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Optimal Gear Ratio

Find the most-efficient reduction ratio for power, RPM and hull.

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Progressive Pitch

Variable pitch distribution and area-weighted mean P/D.

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Report Package

Aggregate results from several tools into one multi-section PDF.

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Performance

Overlay open-water curves of multiple propeller families and mark the operating point.

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Results are engineering estimates for preliminary study only.