Ship bow wave breaking is a common phenomenon during navigation,involving complex multi-scale flow interactions.However,the understanding of this intense free surface flow issue is not sufficiently deep,especially reg...Ship bow wave breaking is a common phenomenon during navigation,involving complex multi-scale flow interactions.However,the understanding of this intense free surface flow issue is not sufficiently deep,especially regarding the lack of research on the impact of scale effects on bow wave breaking.This paper focuses on the benchmark ship model KCS and conducts numerical simulations and comparative analyses of bow wave breaking for three model scales under the condition of Fr=0.35.The numerical calculations were performed using the in-house computational fluid dynamics(CFD)solver naoe-FOAM-SJTU,which is developed on the open source platform OpenFOAM.Delayed detached eddy simulation(DDES)method is utilized to calculate the viscous flow field around the ship hull.The present method was validated through measurement data of wave profiles and wake flows obtained from model tests.Flow field results for three different scales,including bow wave profiles,vorticity at various sections,and wake distribution,were presented and analyzed.The results indicate that there is small difference in the bow wave overturning and breaking for the first two occurrences across different scales.However,considerable effects of scale are observed on the temporal and spatial variations of the free surface breaking pattern after the second overturning.The findings of this study can serve as valuable data references for the analysis of scale effects in ship bow wave breaking phenomena.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52131102).
文摘Ship bow wave breaking is a common phenomenon during navigation,involving complex multi-scale flow interactions.However,the understanding of this intense free surface flow issue is not sufficiently deep,especially regarding the lack of research on the impact of scale effects on bow wave breaking.This paper focuses on the benchmark ship model KCS and conducts numerical simulations and comparative analyses of bow wave breaking for three model scales under the condition of Fr=0.35.The numerical calculations were performed using the in-house computational fluid dynamics(CFD)solver naoe-FOAM-SJTU,which is developed on the open source platform OpenFOAM.Delayed detached eddy simulation(DDES)method is utilized to calculate the viscous flow field around the ship hull.The present method was validated through measurement data of wave profiles and wake flows obtained from model tests.Flow field results for three different scales,including bow wave profiles,vorticity at various sections,and wake distribution,were presented and analyzed.The results indicate that there is small difference in the bow wave overturning and breaking for the first two occurrences across different scales.However,considerable effects of scale are observed on the temporal and spatial variations of the free surface breaking pattern after the second overturning.The findings of this study can serve as valuable data references for the analysis of scale effects in ship bow wave breaking phenomena.
