... are numerically investigated. An anisotropic mesh adaptation technique is applied, believed for the first time, to marine propellers and to two computational domains. Findings The current study’s performance coefficients are compared with other previously published CFD results and improvements in terms...

... convergence of the method. Anisotropic mesh adaptation is then used to adapt the mesh to the main problem’s variables and to reach good accuracy with a small number of degrees of freedom. Finally, the variational multiscale method leads to a natural stabilization of the finite elements algorithm, preventing...