Cmarc, which is a low-order panel code (but the "low order" part doesn't
mean much any more because you can subdivide the prop surface so
finely), can analyze a prop in 3D, but I don't know enough about
propellers to know what to make of the results. It draws really
impressive looking curled up wakes:

Peter

So it cannot predict thrust or HP consumption?

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ops I forgot to include the picture Peter sent.

Paul Lamar