Numerical prediction of effective wake field for a submarine based on a hybrid approach and an RBF interpolation

A hybrid approach coupled with a surface panel method for the propeller and a Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes（RANS） model for the hull with the propeller body forces are presented for predicting the self-propulsion performance and the effective wake field of underwater vehicles. To achieve a high accuracy and simplicity, a radial basis function（RBF） based approach is proposed for mapping the force field from the blade surface panels to the RANS model. The effective wake field is evaluated in two ways, i.e., by extrapolation from the flat planes upstream of the propeller disk, and by direct computation in a curved surface upstream of and parallel to the blade leading edges. The hull-propeller system of a real propeller geometry is further simulated with the sliding mesh model to numerically verify the hybrid approach. Numerical simulations are conducted for the fully appended SUBOFF submarine model. The high accuracy of the RBF-based interpolation scheme is confirmed, and the effective wake fraction predicted by the hybrid approach is found consistent with that obtained by the sliding mesh model. The effective wake fractions predicted by the two methods are, respectively, 4.6% and 3% larger than the nominal one.

Investigating the Performance of Twin Marine Propellers in Different Ship Wake Fields Using an Unsteady Viscous and Inviscid Solver

In this study,the performance of a twin-screw propeller under the influence of the wake field of a fully appended ship was investigated using a coupled Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes(RANS)/boundary element method(BEM)code.The unsteady BEM is an efficient approach to predicting propeller performance.By applying the time-stepping method in the BEM solver,the trailing vortex sheet pattern of the propeller can be accurately captured at each time step.This is the main innovation of the coupled strategy.Furthermore,to ascertain the effect of the wake field of the ship with acceptable accuracy,a RANS solver was developed.A finite volume method was used to discretize the Navier–Stokes equations on fully unstructured grids.To simulate ship motions,the volume of the fluid method was applied to the RANS solver.The validation of each solver(BEM/RANS)was separately performed,and the results were compared with experimental data.Ultimately,the BEM and RANS solvers were coupled to estimate the performance of a twin-screw propeller,which was affected by the wake field of the fully appended hull.The proposed model was applied to a twin-screw oceanography research vessel.The results demonstrated that the presented model can estimate the thrust coefficient of a propeller with good accuracy as compared to an experimental self-propulsion test.The wake sheet pattern of the propeller in open water(uniform flow)was also compared with the propeller in a real wake field.

Modeling of Fluid Turbulence Modification Using Two-time-scale Dissipation Models and Accounting for the Particle Wake Effect

Presently developed two-phase turbulence models under-predict the gas turbulent fluctuation, because their turbulence modification models cannot fully reflect the effect of particles. In this paper, a two-time-scale dissipation model of turbulence modification, developed for the two-phase velocity correlation and for the dissipation rate of gas turbulent kinetic energy, is proposed and used to simulate sudden-expansion and swirling gas-particle flows. The proposed two-time scale model gives better results than the single-time scale model. Besides, a gas turbulence augmentation model accounting for the f＇mite-size particle wake effect in the gas Reynolds stress equation is proposed. The proposed turbulence modification models are used to simulate two-phase pipe flows. It can properly predict both turbulence reduction and turbulence enhancement for a certain size of particles observed in experiments.

Triatomic wake effect and the determination of the molecular structure of HD_2^+ from the Coulomb explosion

A new theoretical model of the triatomic molecular wake effect is proposed and applied to molecular ions D^＋3 and HD^＋2 while passing through a solid. The wake effects resulting from the reactions of the two similar ions with thin carbon foil are also investigated by using the Coulomb explosion technique. The experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical estimates and the molecular structure of HD^＋2 is determined by using the model.

Review on Research about Wake Effects of Offshore Wind Turbines

In recent years,the construction of offshore wind farms is developing rapidly.As the wake effect of the upstream wind turbines seriously affect the performance of the downstream wind turbines,the wake effect of offshore wind turbines has become one of the research hotspots.First,this article reviews the research methods of wake effects,including CFD numerical simulation method,wind turbine wake model based on roughness and engineering wake models.However,there is no general model that can be used directly.Then it puts forward some factors that affect the wake of offshore wind turbines.The turbulence intensity in offshore wind fields is lower than that in onshore wind fields.This makes the wake recovery length of offshore wind turbines longer than that of onshore wind turbines.Floating offshore wind turbines are simultaneously disturbed by wind loads and wave loads.Unsteady movement of the platform caused by wave loads.It affects the development and changes of the wake of wind turbines.In this regard,the focus of research on the wake effects of offshore wind farms will be the proposal of accurate prediction models for the wake effects of sea wind farms.

Discussion of the Fluid Acceleration Quality of a Ducted Propulsion System on the Propulsive Performance

This paper focuses on the ducted propulsion with the accelerating nozzle,and discusses the influence of its fluid acceleration quality on its propulsive performances,including the hull efficiency,the relative rotative efficiency,the effective wake,and the thrust deduction factor.An actual ducted propulsion system is used as an example for computational analysis.The computational conditions are divided into four combinations,which are provided with different propeller pitches,cambers,and duct lengths.Themethod applied in this study is the Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)technology,and the contents of the calculation include the hull’s viscous resistance,the wave-making resistance,the propeller performance curve,and the self-propulsion simulation in order to obtain the ship’s effective wake,thrust deduction factor,hull efficiency,and relative rotative efficiency.The performance curve of the propeller and resistance estimation results are compared with the experimental values for determining the correctness of the self-propulsion simulation.According to the computational analysis,it is known that increasing the propeller pitch cannot effectively increase the hull efficiency.The duct acceleration quality can be reduced by shortening the duct length;hence,when the effective wake fraction and thrust deduction factor decrease,the hull efficiency is increased.In addition,the pressure inside the duct is relatively low if the acceleration quality of the duct is too high,which is unfavorable for controlling the propeller cavitation.Moreover,if the hull bottom in front of the propeller is tapered up from the front to the back at an overly steep angle,the thrust deduction factor will be too large and lead to a relatively low hull efficiency.

The assessment of extactable tidal energy and the effect of tidal energy turbine deployment on the hydrodynamics in Zhoushan

In this study, we construct one 2-dimensional tidal simulation, using an unstructured Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model （FVCOM）. In the 2-D model, we simulated the tidal turbines through adding additional bottom drag in the element where the tidal turbines reside. The additional bottom drag was calculated from the relationship of the bottom friction dissipation and the rated rotor efficiency of the tidal energy turbine. This study analyzed the effect of the tidal energy turbine to the hydrodynamic environment, and calculated the amount of the extractable tidal energy resource at the Guishan Hangmen Channel, considering the rotor wake effect.

A Chaotic Local Search-Based Particle Swarm Optimizer for Large-Scale Complex Wind Farm Layout Optimization

Wind energy has been widely applied in power generation to alleviate climate problems.The wind turbine layout of a wind farm is a primary factor of impacting power conversion efficiency due to the wake effect that reduces the power outputs of wind turbines located in downstream.Wind farm layout optimization(WFLO)aims to reduce the wake effect for maximizing the power outputs of the wind farm.Nevertheless,the wake effect among wind turbines increases significantly as the number of wind turbines increases in the wind farm,which severely affect power conversion efficiency.Conventional heuristic algorithms suffer from issues of low solution quality and local optimum for large-scale WFLO under complex wind scenarios.Thus,a chaotic local search-based genetic learning particle swarm optimizer(CGPSO)is proposed to optimize large-scale WFLO problems.CGPSO is tested on four larger-scale wind farms under four complex wind scenarios and compares with eight state-of-the-art algorithms.The experiment results indicate that CGPSO significantly outperforms its competitors in terms of performance,stability,and robustness.To be specific,a success and failure memories-based selection is proposed to choose a chaotic map for chaotic search local.It improves the solution quality.The parameter and search pattern of chaotic local search are also analyzed for WFLO problems.

Cold Water in the Lee of the Batanes Islands in the Luzon Strait

Using satellite remote sensing data and hydrological observation data,this study investigated the cold water in the lee of the Batanes Islands in the Luzon Strait.The formation of cold water in climate is mainly due to the geostrophic heat advection on the east and west sides of the Batanes Islands:the Kuroshio separates into two branches on the east and west sides of the Batanes Islands.These two branches cause two warm tongues by transferring heat from low latitudes to mid-latitudes,and then the two warm tongues lead to the formation of the relatively cold water in the lee of the Batanes Islands.Further study shows that the cold water range has obvious seasonal and inter-annual variations.Except for August,the seasonal variation of the cold water range is caused by the interaction of geostrophic heat advection and net surface heat flux,whereas the low temperature in August in the lee of the Batanes Islands is caused by the island wake effect.The inter-annual of the cold water range is related to the difference in the meridional velocity between the east and west sides of the Batanes Islands,and the correlation coefficient can reach−0.68 at the 95%confidence level.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF REYNOLDS NUMBER EFFECT ON EFFETIVE WAKE FIELD AND HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF PROPELLER BEHIND SHIP

The Reynolds number effect of the interaction between the three-dimen-sional ship stern with multi-propellers and its corresponding hydrodynamic performance under four different orders of the Reynolds number (including the full scale Reynolds number 1. 67×109 and the model scale Reynolds number 1. 67×106) are numerically investigated in this paper. This approach to propeller-hull interaction is based on three-di-mensional unsteady RANS equations coupled with a propeller performance program in an interactive and iterative manner to predict the combined flow field and hydrodynamic per- formance of propeller. By comparing the computed effective wake distribution and fraction under four different orders of the Reynolds number, the scale effect of nominal and effec-tive wake distribution is examined and discussed.

Smart load control of the large-scale offshore wind turbine blades subject to wake effect

The smart fatigue load control of a large-scale wind turbine blade subject to wake effect was numerically investigated in this paper. The performances were evaluated and compared at selected typical wind speeds within the whole operational region under three turbine layout strategies, i.e., column, row and array arrangements, together with a single turbine case as reference, utilizing our newly developed aero-servo-elastic platform. It was observed that not only the blade fatigue loads but the stabilities of power and collective pitch angle were effectively controlled for all cases, especially at the highest studied hub velocity of20 m/s, leading to the averaged reduction percentages in the standard deviations of the flapwise root moment, the flapwise tip deflection and the root damage equivalent load, of about 30.0 %, 20.0 % and 20.0 %, respectively. Furthermore, the control effectiveness gradually lessened in the sequences of single, column, row and array cases, with successively increasing effective turbulence intensity,within regions II and III. The performances in region III,associated with the impaired flow separation on the blade by the effective pitching action, were much better than those in region II, related to enhanced flow detachment. In addition,at the rated wind velocity, the control for the array case was superior over other three cases, which was thought to be originated from the more pitch activities to impair the uncontrolled flow separation on the blade surface.

Power quality assessment in different wind power plant models considering wind turbine wake effects

The intense increase in the installed capacity of wind farms has required a computationally efficient dynamic equivalent model of wind farms.Various types of wind-farm modelling aim to identify the accuracy and simulation time in the presence of the power system.In this study,dynamic simulation of equivalent models of a sample wind farm,including single-turbine representation,multiple-turbine representation,quasi-multiple-turbine representation and full-turbine representation models,are performed using a doubly-fed induction generator wind turbine model developed in DIgSILENT software.The developed doubly-fed induction generator model in DIgSILENT is intended to simulate inflow wind turbulence for more accurate performance.The wake effects between wind turbines for the fullturbine representation and multiple-turbine representation models have been considered using the Jensen method.The developed model improves the extraction power of the turbine according to the layout of the wind farm.The accuracy of the mentioned methods is evaluated by calculating the output parameters of the wind farm,including active and reactive powers,voltage and instantaneous flicker intensity.The study was carried out on a sample wind farm,which included 39 wind turbines.The simulation results confirm that the computational loads of the single-turbine representation(STR),the multiple-turbine representation and the quasi-multiple-turbine representation are 1/39,1/8 and 1/8 times the full-turbine representation model,respectively.On the other hand,the error of active power(voltage)with respect to the full-turbine representation model is 74.59%(1.31%),43.29%(0.31%)and 7.19%(0.11%)for the STR,the multiple-turbine representation and the quasi-multiple representation,respectively.

Optimal Placement of Wind Turbines in Wind Farm Layout Using Particle Swarm Optimization

An optimal geographical location of wind turbines can ensure the optimum total energy output of a wind farm.This study introduces a new solution to the optimization of wind farm layout(WFLO)problem based on a three-step strategy and particle swarm optimization as the main method.The proposed strategy is applied to a certain WFLO to generate highly efficient optimal output power.Three case scenarios are considered to formulate the non-wake and wake effects at various levels.The required wind turbine positions within the wind farm are determined by the particle swarm optimization method.The rule of thumb,which determines the wind turbine spacing,is thoroughly considered.The MATLAB simulation results verify the proposed three-step strategy.Moreover,the results are compared with those of existing research works,and it shows that the proposed optimization strategy yields a better solution in terms of total output power generation and efficiency with a minimized objective function.The efficiencies of the three case studies considered herein increase by 0.65%,1.95%,and 1.74%,respectively.Finally,the simulation results indicate that the proposed method is robust in WFLO design because it further minimizes the objective function.

A general two-phase mixture model for sediment-laden flow in open channel

This work extends the sediment-laden mixture model with consideration of the turbulence damping and particle wake effects under the framework of improved efficiency and accuracy.The mixture model consists of the continuity and momentum equations for the sediment-laden mixture,and the continuity equation for the sediment.A theoretical formula is derived for the relative velocity between the water and sediment phases,with consideration of the effects of the pressure gradient,the shear stress and the lift force.A modified expression of the particle wake effect,inducing the local turbulence enhancement around the sediment particle,is employed to improve the turbulent diffusion of the coarse sediment.The k_(m)-ε_(m) model is proposed to close the mixture turbulence,with the turbulence damping effect due to the high sediment concentration expressed by the density-stratification term without an empirical parameter.The k_(m)-ε_(m) turbulence model requires smaller computational work and offers better results than an empirical density-stratification turbulence model in high sediment concentration cases.Consequently,with the proposed mixture model,the sediment transport in the open channel under a wide range of sediment sizes and concentrations can be revealed with the results in good agreement with experimental data for the velocity,the sediment concentration and the turbulent kinetic energy.

SECOND-ORDER MOMENT TWO-PHASE TURBULENCE MODEL ACCOUNTING FOR TURBULENCE MODULATION IN SWIRLING SUDDEN-EXPANSION CHAMBER

A semi-empirical turbulence enhancement model accounting for the particle-wake effect was incorporated into the second-order moment two-phase turbulence model and employed to simulate gas-particle flows in a swirling sudden-expansion chamber. The simulated results for two-phases mean velocities and fluctuation velocities coincide well with the experiment ones, which demonstrates that this model, in comparison with the turbulence model not accounting for the wake effect, leads to higher calculating accuracy.

Gas Turbulence Modulation Model for Gas-Solid Flows in Two-Fluid Approach

Turbulence enhancement by particle wake effect is studied by numerical simulation of gas turbulent flows passing over particle under various particle sizes, inlet gas velocities, gas viscosity, gas density and the distance of particles. By performing dimension analysis and using the form of gas-particle interaction source term for reference, a new semi-empirical turbulence enhancement model by the particle-wake effect is proposed. The turbulence model is then incorporated into second-order moment model for simulating gas-particle flows in a horizontal channel with different wall roughness and a sudden-expansion chamber. The results show that this model is with higher calculating accuracy than another two turbulence models in comparison with the experimental results.

Optimal placement of wind turbines within a wind farm considering multi-directional wind speed using two-stage genetic algorithm

Most wind turbines within wind farms are set up to face a pre-determined wind direction.However,wind directions are intermittent in nature,leading to less electricity production capacity.This paper proposes an algorithm to solve the wind farm layout optimization problem considering multi-angular(MA)wind direction with the aim of maximizing the total power generated on wind farms and minimizing the cost of installation.A twostage genetic algorithm(GA)equipped with complementary sampling and uniform crossover is used to evolve a MA layout that will yield optimal output regardless of the wind direction.In the first stage,the optimal wind turbine layouts for 8 different major wind directions were determined while the second stage allows each of the previously determined layouts to compete and inter-breed so as to evolve an optimal MA wind farm layout.The proposed MA wind farm layout is thereafter compared to other layouts whose turbines have focused site specific wind turbine orientation.The results reveal that the proposed wind farm layout improves wind power production capacity with minimum cost of installation compared to the layouts with site specific wind turbine layouts.This paper will find application at the planning stage of wind farm.