By providing power to a propeller it can impart motion to the air and can therefore couple human power output to provide propulsion for an airplane. For boats, a propeller used for propulsion can ...
Most famous of these is probably the toroidal propeller that made waves a while ago, mostly in the field of flying drones, but commercial toroidal boat props exist too. Test results of the ...
researchers iterated on various toroidal propeller geometries until arriving at one that significantly reduces the sound produced by the rotors, particularly in the range of human hearing.