Abstract The hydrodynamics performance of podded propulsion at declination angles was discussed. A series of experimental investigations for hydrodynamics performance of podded propulsion at declination angles were conducted by pod dynamical instrument and cavitation tunnel. The hydrodynamics performance of podded propulsion at different declination angles were compared and analyzed. Meanwhile, the hydrodynamics performance of podded propulsion at declination angles were predicted using the RANS formula with RNG k-ε turbulence model based on the sliding mesh method. The experimental and the numerical results were compared and analyzed, which indicate that, along with the augmentation of the declination angle, the warp between the experimental and the numerical results is larger, especially for the thrust of podded propulsion in the flow direction. However, the variational trend is consistent.
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