The requirement of low radiated noise is increasing for underwater propulsors as the noise significantly affecting the comfort and quietness of ships,submarines,and vessels.To broaden the view of noise characteristics...The requirement of low radiated noise is increasing for underwater propulsors as the noise significantly affecting the comfort and quietness of ships,submarines,and vessels.To broaden the view of noise characteristics of pump-jet propulsors(PJPs),this paper considers the radiated noise of a pre-swirl stator PJP with the effects of the advance coefficient and rotor rotational speed.Radiated noise is obtained by the“hybrid method”approach,which combines a hydrodynamic solver with a hydroacoustic solver.The turbulence flow is obtained through improved delayed detached eddy simulation(IDDES),which show good agreement with the experiment,including the performance and flow field.The solver precision,permeable surface size,and sampling frequency notably affect the noise calculation.The spectra of thrust fluctuation and radiated noise are characterized by the tonal phenomenon around the blade passing frequency and its harmonics.The spectrum of radiated noise and overall sound pressure level(OSPL)are considerably affected by both the advance coefficient and the rotor rotational speed.Overall,the numerical results and analysis given in this paper should be partly helpful in deepening the understanding of the radiated noise characteristics of PJPs.展开更多
Previous studies show that the tip clearance loss limits the improvement of pumpjet propulsor (PJP) performance,and the tip clearance flow field is the most complicated part of PJP flow.In this work,the non-cavitation...Previous studies show that the tip clearance loss limits the improvement of pumpjet propulsor (PJP) performance,and the tip clearance flow field is the most complicated part of PJP flow.In this work,the non-cavitation and cavitation hydrodynamic performances of PJP with a tip clearance size of 1 mm are obtained by using the detached-eddy simulation (DES).At constant oncoming velocity,cavitation first occurs on the duct and then disappears with the decrease of the advance ratio.The rotor blade cavitation occurs at the low advance ratio and comprises tip clearance cavitation,tip leakage cavitation,and blade sheet cavitation.In the rotor region,the typical vortices include tip separation vortex,tip leakage vortex,trailing edge shedding vortex,and blade root horseshoe vortex.Combined with the pressure distribution,both the Q and λ2 criteria give reliable results of vortex identification.The cavitation causes an expansion of tip leakage vortex in the circumferential direction and decreases the intensities of tip separation vortex in the whole tip clearance area and tip leakage vortex in the cavitation area,and enhances the strength of tip leakage vortex in the downstream non-cavitation area.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51979226).
文摘The requirement of low radiated noise is increasing for underwater propulsors as the noise significantly affecting the comfort and quietness of ships,submarines,and vessels.To broaden the view of noise characteristics of pump-jet propulsors(PJPs),this paper considers the radiated noise of a pre-swirl stator PJP with the effects of the advance coefficient and rotor rotational speed.Radiated noise is obtained by the“hybrid method”approach,which combines a hydrodynamic solver with a hydroacoustic solver.The turbulence flow is obtained through improved delayed detached eddy simulation(IDDES),which show good agreement with the experiment,including the performance and flow field.The solver precision,permeable surface size,and sampling frequency notably affect the noise calculation.The spectra of thrust fluctuation and radiated noise are characterized by the tonal phenomenon around the blade passing frequency and its harmonics.The spectrum of radiated noise and overall sound pressure level(OSPL)are considerably affected by both the advance coefficient and the rotor rotational speed.Overall,the numerical results and analysis given in this paper should be partly helpful in deepening the understanding of the radiated noise characteristics of PJPs.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51709229 and 51879220)the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province(No.2018JQ5092)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(No.3102019HHZY030019)。
文摘Previous studies show that the tip clearance loss limits the improvement of pumpjet propulsor (PJP) performance,and the tip clearance flow field is the most complicated part of PJP flow.In this work,the non-cavitation and cavitation hydrodynamic performances of PJP with a tip clearance size of 1 mm are obtained by using the detached-eddy simulation (DES).At constant oncoming velocity,cavitation first occurs on the duct and then disappears with the decrease of the advance ratio.The rotor blade cavitation occurs at the low advance ratio and comprises tip clearance cavitation,tip leakage cavitation,and blade sheet cavitation.In the rotor region,the typical vortices include tip separation vortex,tip leakage vortex,trailing edge shedding vortex,and blade root horseshoe vortex.Combined with the pressure distribution,both the Q and λ2 criteria give reliable results of vortex identification.The cavitation causes an expansion of tip leakage vortex in the circumferential direction and decreases the intensities of tip separation vortex in the whole tip clearance area and tip leakage vortex in the cavitation area,and enhances the strength of tip leakage vortex in the downstream non-cavitation area.
