A Comparison of Physical and Numerical Modeling of Homogenous Isotropic Propeller Blades
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
An interesting paper on propeller FSI. Overall the work is well presented but some english can be improved in placed and recommend through proof reading. As an example best not to use english like 'figure x shows' but better to as shown in figure x. The figures and captions lack detail in places, some additional annotation in the figure and an additional sentence or two in the captions to explain to the reader what is presented without having to go through the text is recommended (captions should be sufficient to gather what is presented). Technically the work appears fine. It is excellent that a detailed appendix is provided of the propeller geometric parameters and the equations used to define the geometry as this is often confused.
Author Response
The authors are thankful to the reviewer for the comments and suggestions. We will proceed with revising the paper as suggested.
Reviewer 2 Report
Line 8: please write the complete name of the acronym SINTEF (or write at the Abbreviations)
Line 18: please write Atkinson & Glover (1988)
Line 49: please write Achkinadze et. al
Line 52: …FleksProp consortium: please give more details about the project.
Line 61: PROTOTAL AS, give a reference.
Line 70-71: Kempf & Remmers H29 model: give more details (range of the dynamometer, etc.)
The introduction needs improvement. More references are needed to be clear the importance of the topic.
Figure 1: please make a new figure with bigger letters for the ZG, XG ect.
Figure 3 and Figure 4: this Figures can easily found in google, so I believe that is better to change this fotos due to plagiarism problems.
Line 161: …generated by the Abaqus. This mesh is the automatic mesh? Is it the automatic discretion that the program gives or have you done anything else? Please provide more information
Figure 6: the same with figure 3-4
Figure 10: make a comment for the results at J=1. Why we have some differences between CFD and EXPERIMENTS (red line-red triangle)
References:
Abaqus user’s manual reference is needed
STAR-CCM+ user’s manual reference is needed
My opinion is to write more references.
Author Response
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