BLADE ELEMENT THEORY:Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed

by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to

determine the behavior of propellers. It involves breaking a blade down into
several small parts then determining the forces on each of these small blade
elements. These forces are then integrated along the entire blade and over
one rotor revolution in order to obtain the forces and moments produced by
the entire propeller or rotor. One of the key difficulties lies in modelling the
induced velocity on the rotor disk. Because of this the blade element theory
is often combined with the momentum theory to provide additional
relationships necessary to describe the induced velocity on the rotor disk. At
the most basic level of approximation a uniform induced velocity on the disk
is assumed: