To design a propeller for ship power plant,the interaction between ship hull and propeller must be taken into account.The main concern is to apply the wake effect of ship stern on the propeller performance.In this pap...To design a propeller for ship power plant,the interaction between ship hull and propeller must be taken into account.The main concern is to apply the wake effect of ship stern on the propeller performance.In this paper,a coupled BEM(Boundary Element Method)/RANS(Renolds-Averaged Navier−Stokes)solver is used to simulate propeller behind the hull in the self-propulsion test.The motivation of this work is to develop a practical tool to design marine propulsion system without suffering long computational time.An unsteady boundary element method which is also known as panel method is chosen to estimate the propeller forces.Propeller wakes are treated using a time marching wake alignment method.Also,a RANS code coupled with VoF equation is developed to consider the ship motions and wake field effects in the problem.A coupling algorithm is developed to interchange ship wake field to the potential flow solver and propeller thrust to the RANS code.Based on the difference between hull resistance and the propeller thrust,a PI controller is developed to compute the propeller RPM in every time step.Verification of the solver is carried out using the towing tank test report of a 50 m oceanography research vessel.Wake factor and trust deduction coefficient are estimated numerically.Also,the wake rollup pattern of the propeller in open water is compared with the propeller in real wake field.展开更多
The nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method has been developed considering the simulation efficiency and accuracy to simulate the hydraulic dynamic characteristics of the centrifugal pump. It has been proved that the nonline...The nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method has been developed considering the simulation efficiency and accuracy to simulate the hydraulic dynamic characteristics of the centrifugal pump. It has been proved that the nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method could effectively capture the unsteady flow structure and pressure pulsation in 2?D centrifugal pumps. To further investigate the hydraulic dynamic performance of a redesigned 3-D-gap drainage centrifugal pump, the nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method is employed. Both numerical simulation and experimental results show that the hydraulic performance and pressure pulsation characteristics of the 3-D-gap drainage impeller centrifugal pump are significantly enhanced.展开更多
文摘To design a propeller for ship power plant,the interaction between ship hull and propeller must be taken into account.The main concern is to apply the wake effect of ship stern on the propeller performance.In this paper,a coupled BEM(Boundary Element Method)/RANS(Renolds-Averaged Navier−Stokes)solver is used to simulate propeller behind the hull in the self-propulsion test.The motivation of this work is to develop a practical tool to design marine propulsion system without suffering long computational time.An unsteady boundary element method which is also known as panel method is chosen to estimate the propeller forces.Propeller wakes are treated using a time marching wake alignment method.Also,a RANS code coupled with VoF equation is developed to consider the ship motions and wake field effects in the problem.A coupling algorithm is developed to interchange ship wake field to the potential flow solver and propeller thrust to the RANS code.Based on the difference between hull resistance and the propeller thrust,a PI controller is developed to compute the propeller RPM in every time step.Verification of the solver is carried out using the towing tank test report of a 50 m oceanography research vessel.Wake factor and trust deduction coefficient are estimated numerically.Also,the wake rollup pattern of the propeller in open water is compared with the propeller in real wake field.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51379120, 51179100).
文摘The nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method has been developed considering the simulation efficiency and accuracy to simulate the hydraulic dynamic characteristics of the centrifugal pump. It has been proved that the nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method could effectively capture the unsteady flow structure and pressure pulsation in 2?D centrifugal pumps. To further investigate the hydraulic dynamic performance of a redesigned 3-D-gap drainage centrifugal pump, the nonlinear hybrid RANS/LES method is employed. Both numerical simulation and experimental results show that the hydraulic performance and pressure pulsation characteristics of the 3-D-gap drainage impeller centrifugal pump are significantly enhanced.
