Investigation on interaction and characteristics of traffic flows in urban elevated road-ramp-ground road system

The rapid development of the automobile industry and the relative lag of the road construction have constituted a prominent contradiction all over the world, particularly, in most of large cities. To cope with it, elevated roads have been built in many cities both at home and abroad. However, traffic jams frequently appear on elevated roads immediately after the completion of their construction. The awkward situation mainly results from the planning bug or the unsuitable control, apart from drastic increase in transportation demand. Elevated roads,

Numerical Study on the Unsteady Characteristics of the Propeller Cavitation in Uniform and Nonuniform Wake Flows

Propeller cavitation is a problematic issue because of its negative effects, such as performances losses, noise,vibration and erosion. Numerical methodology is an effective and efficient technical tool for the study of propeller cavitation, however, it is hard to capture tip-vortex cavitation in the previous work by using common turbulence models based on turbulent-viscosity hypothesis. In this work, the Reynolds-Averaged Naiver-Stokes(RANS)approach, adopting the Reynolds stress turbulence model(RSM), is taken to study the unsteady characteristics of the cavitation on the four-bladed INSEAN E779 A model propeller. The numerical simulation was carried out using the commercial CFD software ANSYS Fluent 14.0. One kind of uniform wake flow and two kinds of nonuniform wake flows are considered here. The results in the uniform flow show a good agreement with previous experimental results on both the sheet cavitation and the tip vortex cavitation and prove the ability of the RSM on capturing the tip vortex cavitation. Two kinds of nonuniform wake flows are designed based on the previous experimental researches and the unsteady characteristics of the propeller cavitation are analyzed by comparing the results in the uniform and two nonuniform wake flows together.

WATER TUNNEL EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE DRAG REDUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRAVELING WAVY WALL

Drag reduction experiment of the traveling wavy wall at high Reynolds number is conducted.A suit of traveling wavy wall device is developed.The drag forces of the traveling wavy wall with various wave speeds（c）are measured under different water speeds（U）in the K15 cavitation water tunnel and are compared with that of the flat plate.The results show that the mean drag force of the traveling wavy wall have decreased and then increased with oscillation frequency increasing at the same flow speed.Under different flow speeds,when traveling wave wall reached to the minimum of drag force,the corresponding the ratio of the wall motion phase speed c to flow speed U,c /U is slightly different.Within the parameters of the experiment,whenc /U reaches a certain value,the drag force of the traveling wavy wall can be less than that of the flat plate.The drag reduction can be up to 42%.Furthermore,as the value ofc /U increases,the traveling wavy wall can restrain the separation and improve the quality of flow field.

RESEARCH ON THE BASE CAVITY OF A SUB-LAUNCHED PROJECTILE

The finite volume method based on a multiphase model is adopted to solve the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes （RANS） equations,which takes into account the effects of fluid compressibility,viscosity,gravity,medium mixture and energy transfer of water and combustion gas.The program Fluent User Define Function （UDF） module combined with the dynamic mesh method is employed to simulate the coupling flow field of combustion gas,water field and trajectory of projectile.The results show that the volume of gas cavity at the bottom of projectile and tail pressure will fluctuate after bottom of the projectile leaving the launch tube.The cause of the fluctuation is analyzed and its effects on the trajectory of projectile are presented.The numerical and experimental results agree well with each other.

CALCULATION OF ADDED MASS OF A VEHICLE RUNNING WITH CAVITY

A numerical method is developed to obtain the added mass coefficients of a vehicle running with cavity in numerical simulation for the multiphase flow of the vehicle which is imposed an added vibration and analyzing its hydrodynamic loads. The method is verified through the cases of non-cavitating sphere and ellipsoid. The changing rule of the added mass of a sphere during water exit is gained. Then the influence of cavitation on the added mass of a cylinder is studied. The results show that λ 11, λ22, λ26, λ66 all decrease as the cavitation number reduces and the length of the attached cavity increases. There is almost a linear relationship between the cavity length and λ22 .The base cavity has great influence on λ11 its contribution decreases more than 60%, when the cavitation number changes from 0.6 to 0.2.

PROPERTIES OF NATURAL CAVITATION FLOWS AROUND A 2-D WEDGE IN SHALLOW WATER

When a body navigates with cavity in shallow water, both flexible free surface and rigid bottom wall will produce great influences on the cavity shape and hydrodynamic performances, and further affect the motion attitude and stability of the body. In the present work, characteristics of the natural cavitating flow around a 2-D symmetrical wedge in shallow water were investigated and the influences of two type boundaries on the flow pattern were analyzed. The Volume Of Fluid （VOF） multiphase flow method which is suitable for free surface problems was utilized, coupled with a natural cavitation model to deal with the mass-transfer process between liquid and vapor phases. Within the range of the cavitation number for computation （0.07-1.81）, the cavity configurations would be divided into three types, viz., stable type, transition type and wake-vortex type. In this article, the shapes of the free surface and the cavity surface, and the hydrodynamic performance of the wedge were discussed under the conditions of relatively small cavitation number （〈0.256）. The present numerical cavity lengths generally accord with experimental data. When the cavitation number was decreased, the cavity was found to become longer and thicker, and the scope of the deformation of the free surface also gradually extends. The free surface and the upper cavity surface correspond fairly to their shapes. However, the lower side of the cavity surface was rather leveled due to the influence of wall boundary. The lift and drag coefficients of this 2-D wedge basically keep linear relations with the natural cavitation number smaller than 0.157, whereas direct proportion for drag and inverse proportion for lift.

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE DRAG REDUCTION CHARACTERISTICS OF TRAVELING WAVY WALL AT HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER IN WIND TUNNEL

Drag reduction experiments of the traveling wavy wall at high Reynolds number, ranging from 1.46×106 to 5.83×106 based on the free-stream velocity and the model length, were conducted. A suit of traveling wavy wall device was developed and its characteristics of drag reduction at high Reynolds number were investigated. The drag forces of the traveling wavy wall with various wave speeds （ c ） were measured at different wind speeds （U ） in the FL-8 low-speed wind tunnel and compared with the drag force of the flat plate. The results show that the mean drag force of the traveling wavy wall decreases as the value of c /U increases, at different wind velocities, the values of c /U corresponding to minimal drag force of the traveling wavy wall are different, when the values of c /U are larger than 0.6, the mean drag forces of the traveling wavy wall are smaller than those of the flat plate, and the drag reduction can be up to 60%. The drag reduction effectiveness of traveling wavy wall is thus achieved. Furthermore, as the value of c /U increases, the traveling wavy wall can restrain the separation and improve the quality of flow field.

NUMERICAL RESEARCHES ON INTERACTION BETWEEN PROPELLERS IN UNIFORM FLOW

Numerical simulations of the flow around two bidirectional staggered propellers are conducted in uniform flow. The computed open water performance of the fore-propeller is compared with the corresponding experimental results, and the influence of the fore-propeller on the aft one is carefully investigated. It is found that the inflow around the aft propeller close to the side of the fore is especially affected by the fore one, leading to abnormal circumferential distribution of force on the blade in the shade region. For either forces or velocity distributions, the abnormal changes behave contrarily for cases with the rotating speed larger or smaller than the idle. Moreover, the more the rotating speed of the fore differs from the idle, the larger the abnormal values become.

INTERFERENCE OF SIDE STRUT WITH THE NATURAL CAVITATING FLOWS AROUND A SUBMERGED VEHICLE IN WATER TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS

To apply the measurements of model experiment in water tunnel to the actual sailing condition, it is necessary to know accurately the strut effect and its rule. In the present work, the corresponding interferences of one-side strut and two-side strut on the natural cavitating flows around a submerged vehicle in water tunnel were investigated numerically, using the homogeneous equilibrium two-phase model coupled with a natural cavitation model. The numerical simulation results show that the strut types have distinct effects on the hydrodynamic properties. For the same given upstream velocity and downstream pressure, the existence of the strut leads to an increment of natural cavitation number, reduces the low-pressure region and depresses the pressure on the vehicle surface near the sides of strut. In the case of given cavitaiton number, the influences of the two-side strut on the drag and lift coefficients are both enhanced along with the increment of attack angle, however the influence of the one-side strut gradually gets stronger on the drag coefficient but weaker on the lift coefficient contrarily. In addition, based on the present numerical results, a correction method by introducing the sigmoidal logistic function is proposed to eliminate the interference from the foil-shaped strut.

REFLEXION AND TRANSMISSION OF WATER WAVES BY A THIN CURVED PERMEABLE BARRIER

Using the panel method, the problem of reflexion and transmission of water waves by a thin permeable barrier is studied in this paper. It's found that a well- designed curved porous plate has an excellent ability in trapping waves within a wide range of frequency.

APPLICATION OF QUADRATIC AND CUBIC TURBULENCE MODELS ON CAVITATING FLOWS AROUND SUBMERGED OBJECTS

Quadratic and cubic Non-Linear Eddy-Viscosity Models （NLEVMs） at low Reynolds number （Re） correction were introduced into the present Computational Fluid Dynamics （CFD） framework, to provide better numerical treatment about the anisotropic turbulence stress in cavitating flows, which have large density ratio and large-scaled swirling flow structures. The applications of these NLEVMs were carried out through a self-developed cavitation code, coupled with a cavitation model based on the transport equation of liquid phase. These NLEVMs were firstly validated by the benchmark of disk supercavity, and found able to obtain more accurate capture of the hydrodynamic properties than the linear models. One of such models was further applied on the cavitation problem of submerged vehicles. Ultimately, the supercavitating flows around an especially designed underwater vehicle were predicted using the cubic k - e turbulence model, and its cavitation behaviors were studied.