Design enhancement of paddle fin for fishing kayak

Norizan, Muhammad Firdaus (2021) Design enhancement of paddle fin for fishing kayak. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Kayak manufacturers have changed their current recreational kayaks in recent years to satisfy people who are interested in fishing with their recreational kayaks. Recreational kayaks are often designed to provide maximum efficiency, for example speed and directional stability, for good stability or balance between the two. The type of movement carried out by the user is normally restricted to paddling in a recreational kayak. Hence, the main objectives are to investigate other type of aerofoil design that can be used to maximize its performance. The literature review it was conducted to investigate the several type of aerofoil for paddle fin fishing kayak. A some existed type of aerofoil it was studied with several criteria an aspect was taken to considerate to improve the performance fishing kayak with differences type of aerofoil. Some method has been used in this project to achieve the objectives of project. A collecting data method has been conducted to find several types of aerofoils that suitable for paddle fin drive. From the result collecting data, the next step is to study the design requirements as well as the design by using design and analysis software. The third objective that has been identified is to validate the type of aerofoil with an optimum forward thrust for fishing kayak. After finish generate the fin design with different type of airfoil in Solidwork software, the design of fin was imported to ANSYS software to continue the analysis in this project. According to the result, the airfoil design that have good performance is the NACA 2414 (semi symmetrical) compared with other two airfoil. It is because the NACA 2414 have good performance in Coefficient of lift (CL), Coefficient of drag (CD) and Lift force.

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