Impact Dynamics of Supercavitating Projectile with Fluid/Structure Interaction

As supercavitating projectiles move at high speed, the periodic impacts ("tail-slap") on the interior surface of the cavity generally occur due to disturbances. The interactions between the projectile and the water/cavity interface are the sources of structural vibrations, which affect the guidance of the vehicle and undermine the structural reliability. The Fluid/Structure Interaction calculation procedure of the tail-slaps of supercavitating projectile is established, and the dynamic behaviours of the projectile operating in tail-slap conditions with and without considering Fluid/Structure Interaction are obtained and compared. The responses of the projectile riding a reducing cavity are studied, and the effect of Fluid/Structure Interaction is also analyzed. The results show that the angular velocity of projectile increases as the body slowing down, and the amplitude of the elastic displacement response decreases at the beginning and increases when the cavity size is close to the diameter of the tail of projectile. The effect of Fluid/Structure Interaction reduces the amplitudes and frequencies of the impact loads and the vibration responses of the body, and when the speed is higher, the effect is more apparent.

A New Hybrid Reliability Index Definition and Its Application to the Structure Buckling Reliability Analysis of Supercavitating Projectiles

As structure buckling problems easily arise when supercavitating projectiles operate with high underwater velocity, it is necessary to perform structure buckling reliability analysis. Now it is widely known that probabilistic and non-probabilistic uncertain information exists in engineering analysis. Based on reliability comprehensive index of multi-ellipsoid convex set, probabilistic uncertain information is added and transferred into non-probabilistic interval variable. The hybrid reliability is calculated by a combined method of modified limit step length iteration algorithm(MLSLIA) and Monte-Carlo method. The results of engineering examples show that the convergence of MLSLIA is better than that of limit step length iteration algorithm(LSLIA). Structure buckling hybrid reliability increases with the increase of ratio of base diameter to cavitator diameter, and decreases with the increase of initial launch velocity. Also the changes of uncertain degree of projectile velocity and cavitator drag coefficient affect structure buckling hybrid reliability index obviously. Therefore, uncertain degree of projectile velocity and cavitator drag coefficient should be controlled in project for high structure buckling reliability.

超空泡射弹的结构优化与稳定性分析

Stability is the key issue for kinetic-energy supercavitating projectiles.Our previous work established a six degrees of freedom(DOF)dynamic model for supercavitating projectiles.However,the projectile’s structure did not meet our current design specifications(its sailing distance could reach 100 m at an initial speed of 500 m/s).The emphasis of this study lies in optimizing the projectile’s configuration.Therefore,a program was developed to optimize the projectile’s structure to achieve an optimal design or the largest sailing distance.The program is a working optimal method based on the genetic algorithm(GA).Additionally,the convergence standard and population producing strategy were improved,which greatly elevated the calculation speed and precision.To meet design specifications,the improved GA was combined with the 6DOF model,which establishes a dynamic optimization problem.The new projectile’s structure was obtained by solving this problem.Then,the new structures’dynamic features were compared with the ideals proposed in this paper.The criterion of stability,which is called weakened self-stability,was redefined based on the results.The weakened self-stability is the optimal stability for an actual kinetic projectile motion,and it is instructive for the design of supercavitating projectiles in the future.