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International Conference

DEVELOPMENTS IN MarINE CFD

18 - 19 November 2011 IIt madras, CheNNaI, INdIa

DEVELOPMENTS IN MarINE CFD

18 -19 November 2011

day 1
09.00 - 09.30 COFFEE aND rEGISTraTION 09.30 10.05 CFD aNaLYSIS OF FLOW THrOUGH BaTTErY STaCK OF aN UNDErWaTEr VEHICLE HN Das, VF Saji and PK Panigrahi Hydrodynamics Research Wing, NSTL, India CFd was used to ascertain few hydrodynamic aspects of a batterydriven high-speed underwater vehicle during its development. It demands a huge and uniform flow across it. a scoop is designed and placed at the entry of battery chamber to suck water from outside the vehicle. the flow through the scoop and battery is critical for the vehicle's attainment of design speed. the present study is made to estimate flow rate through battery stacks. however, inclusion of scoop may adversely affect the motion dynamics for the vehicle. so, further studies were carried out to estimate the increase in drag as well as pitching moment on the vehicle due to the scoop. 10.05 10.40 INTEGraTED DESIGN OF WaTErJET PrOPULSION BaSED ON CFD S Chang, Y Wang, J Ding, C Liu, Naval University of Engineering, , China the paper discusses the role of CFd in waterjet propulsion's hydraulic performance analysis, optimal design and propulsive performance prediction. a numerical model describing interior flow of waterjet propulsion is built, meshed with multi-block structured grids and computed by solving raNs equations and sst turbulent model equations. Credibility of the CFd model is investigated with application to KameWa 71sII waterjet propulsion, the calculation results agree well with the data that manufactures offered. the numerical model is applied to a new-type waterjet propulsion. during the whole course of waterjet propulsion design, CFd exerts a significant contribution for the performance and attaining the expectant ship speed. 10.40 11.15 CFD aNaLYSIS FOr PUMPJET PrOPULSOr aT LOW aDVaNCE raTIO hN das1 and mohit Nigam2 Pumpjets have become a preferred propulsion system for unmanned vehicles operating at higher speeds. In the absence of published data and established methods for pumpjet design, the designers rely on the experiments and empirical methods used in turbo-machinery design and innovatively apply these for marine propulsor design. However, with the recent advance of CFD techniques, it has found increasing applications for analysis of complex 3D flows in pumpjet propulsors. In the present paper, CFD analysis of a high speed underwater vehicle fitted with Pump Jet Propulsor was carried out to examine the flow phenomenon around the body as well as within the propulsor including the flow through the stator and rotor blades and within the cowl. 11.15 - 11.45 COFFEE 11.45 12.20 QaLE-FEM NEW GENEraTION TOOL FOr aNaLYSING WaVE/ CUrrENT KINEMaTICS aND THEIr EFFECTS ON MarINE STrUCTUrES Q.W. Ma*, S. YanSchool of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London In the field of estimating wave/current loads on marine structures, evidences have shown that simplified methods ignoring the nonlinearity lead to insufficiently accurate results for extreme conditions in harsh weather. this demands a robust numerical tool considering full nonlinearity to tackle the challenges during design. thus was developed the Quasi arbitrary Lagrangian eulerian Finite element method (QaLe-Fem) based on the fully nonlinear potential theory aiming to model extreme ocean waves and their interaction with marine structures. this paper summarises the features of the QaLe-Fem, demonstrates its accuracy, efficiency and feasibility using abroad range of applications covering, (1) modelling extreme waves with/without currents. (2) Wave/current loads on slender structures and responses of floating structures to extreme wave conditions. 12.20 12.55 COaSTaL ZONE SIMULaTIONS WITH OPTIMIZED VarIaTIONaL BOUSSINESQ D. Adytia LabMath-Indonesia and E. Van Groesen, University of Twente , The Netherlands the variational boussinesq model for waves is based on the hamiltonian structure of gravity surface waves. In its approximation, the fluid potential in the kinetic energy is approximated by the sum of its value at the free surface and a linear combination of vertical profiles with horizontal spatially dependent functions as coefficients. the vertical profiles are chosen a priori and determine completely the dispersive property of the model. For signalling problems above varying bottom, we choose one or more airy profiles as vertical profiles and optimized them by minimizing a specific form of kinetic energy. For coastal applications, the model is implemented in Finite element with piecewise linear basis functions. the quality of the model is investigated by comparing simulations with experimental data from marIN hydrodynamic laboratory for irregular wave running over a sloping bottom. 12.55 14.00 LUNCH 14.00 14.35 PrEDICTION OF TIP VOrTEx CaVITaTION INCEPTION aND CaVITaTION SHIP SPEED OF MarINE PrOPELLErS BaSED ON CaVITaTION VISCOUS SIMULaTION Qiongfang Yang, Yongsheng Wang, Naval University of Engineering, China after the back tip vortex cavitation inception curve of the propeller being predicted by cavitation viscous simulation, prediction of ship cavitation inception speed can be completed by the intersection with the ship operation curve obtained by numerical selfpropulsion for the whole submarine. the cavitation simulation was conducted with improved sauer cavitation model accounting for the effects of both mass and volume fraction of non-condensable gas on cavitation inception. all the four propellers open water characteristics agreed with experiment fairly well, and the sheet cavitation pattern, cavity area, thrust and torque breakdown performance curves induced by cavitation of the three propellers used for validation were fit well with the known experiment also. 14.35 15.10 NUMErICaL SIMULaTION OF FLOW PaST THrEE BLaDED MarINE PrOPELLEr D.Dipin, N.Prakash, A Muthuvel, D.G.Roychowdhury Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, India Conventional marine propellers remain the standard propulsion mechanism for surface ships and underwater vehicles. this paper presents a numerical investigation of the hydrodynamic performance and flow fields around a three bladed propeller. the investigation is to validate computational results against experimental data with various turbulence models and find out the model which predicts the results. the computed values are compared with experimental data. It is found that the prediction of hydrodynamic coefficients such as thrust, torque and pressure coefficients for propeller are in good agreement with the experimental data. 15.10 15.45 COFFEE 15.45 16.20 OPTIMIZaTION OF a WING IN GrOUND EFFECT (WIG) CraFT USING INTEGraTED COMPUTaTIONaL FLUID DYNaMIC A.Maimun, Jaswar, A.Priyanto, N.Saputra, S.Jamee, M.Zamani, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia on a previous study, the effect of flat ground and end plate proximity on the aerodynamic characteristics and stability criteria of NaCa 6409 rectangular wing for a Wing in Ground effect (WIG) craft was investigated using vortex Lattice method. the results show the static stability margin was significantly affected by changing ground clearance with or without endplate.Following from the above study, this paper discusses optimization of the wing of a WIG craft using an integrated CFd program developed in house. In this study, the WIG was investigated in terms of lift and drag coefficients same as the previous study. results of simulation are compared with experimental data in terms of lift coefficient. 16.20 16.55 THE USE OF FrEE-SUrFaCE CFD MODELLING TECHNIQUE TO PrEDICT CaTaMaraN rESISTaNCE COMPONENTS K A P Utama, A Jamaluddin, B. Widodo and W.D. Aryawan1, Indonesia the aim of this paper is to give an overview of modeling techniques for Catamaran hull hydrodynamics and their hull resistance interferences. the model involves the numerical solution of the of the reynolds averaged Navier-stokes (raNs) equations along with the volume of Fluid (voF) method for predicting the free surface. this study shows that CFd free surface code has a capability to resolve the physics of the flow around the hull. the shape of the free surface and wave distributions around the hull corresponds well with the experimental observations

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DEVELOPMENTS IN MarINE CFD

18 - 19 November 2011

day 2
09.00 - 09.30 09.30 10.05 COFFEE aND rEGISTraTION ExPErIMENTaL aND CFD SIMULaTION OF THE FLOW arOUND BILGE KEEL. Irkal Mohsin A.R, S. Nallayarasu, S.K. Bhattacharya, IIT Madras, India roll motion of floating bodies is highl important and complex because it is highly non-linear causing instability of the floating vessels. severe beam sea or oblique wave conditions induce high amplitude roll motion in ships. Fpsos are also prone to such conditions. therefore, it is very important to damp and restrict the roll motion under considerable limits for their smooth operations. though there are various devices, bilge keels turn out to be simple and effective to dampen roll motion. a lot of literature is available on the study and design of bilge keels and most of them are empirical in nature. the vortex shedding and turbulence around the bilge keel is the important factor for damping roll. hence, it is important to study and visualize the flow around the bilge keels.the present study is to simulate the flow around bilge keels of various configurations. a two dimensional numerical wave tank with piston like wave-maker is simulated using FLUeNt (CFd software). 10.05 10.40 CFD SIMULaTION OF THE FLOW arOUND DaMPING ELEMENTS FOr FLOaTING BODIES IN WaVES NT Philip, S. Nallayarasu and S.K. Bhattacharyya, IIT Madras, India damping elements have been in use as heaving damping devices in offshore structures to reduce the heave response. though there exists a body of literature on classical damping devices such as bilge keels, fins etc in ships many innovative applications are found in marine industrial practices. an attempt has been made in this study to look into flow around these damping elements using CFd. In the present study, numerical simulation of the flow around damping plate of three different configuration attached to a spar buoy is carried out. particle Image velocimetry (pIv) has also been carried out in a glass flume for comparison and evaluation. the velocity pattern and vortex formation around the damping plates obtained through the pIv study is used to validate the numerical simulation. 10.40 11.15 11.15 11.50 COFFEE CFD aNaLYSIS OF a HYDrODYNaMIC DEPrESSOr K Ajithkumar and K Sudarsan Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory, Kochi, India Undersea towed systems are effective tool for many marine applications.a conventional towed system utilises a negatively buoyant primary tow cable and a towed body. the operational depth of a towed body is controlled only by ship speed and cable scope. hydrodynamic drag force and tension limit the cable scope for required depth. to overcome this effect, depressors are attached to the primary tow cable to induce a downward force and position the body at a predetermined depth. In this paper, a typical v-fin type of hydrodynamic depressor has been selected to carry out the CFd analysis using numerical tool FLUeNt. the depressive force estimated is compared with the available results and found to be in good agreement. 11.50 12.25 ESTIMaTION OF aDDED MaSS FOr SPHErOID BY USING COMPUTaTIONaL FLUID DYNaMICS aPPrOaCH Sakthivel R, Vengadesan S, Bhattacharyya SK, IIT Madras, Chennai, India this paper addresses the Computational Fluid dynamics approach (CFd) to determine the added mass for spheroid. In the present study vertical planar motion mechanism (vpmm) is simulated computationally. sinusoidal motions (heaving and pitching) are imposed on the computational model (spheroid).to implement these motions dynamic mesh algorithm is adopted in a 3d computational domain. For the present study standard k- turbulence model is used for solving the reynolds averaged Navier-stokes equation (raNs). pure heaving and pure pitching motions are simulated. sensitivity of results is analyzed over heaving amplitude and time period of oscillation. From the force history of vpmm motions, surge and heaving added mass are calculated. these added mass values shows a good agreement with experimental and theoretical results. LUNCH 14.40 15.10 15.10 15.45 13.30 14.05 FLOW-ExCITED SUBMarINE STrUCTUrE aCOUSTIC rESPONSE BaSED ON a rEFINED INTEGraL aLGOrITHM Wei Ying-san , Wang Yong-sheng, Naval University of Engineering, P R China based on the coupling CFd/bem/Fem, the flow-excited submarine hull vibration and underwater noise were calculated. Firstly, the transient flow of the submarine fluid field was simulated via CFd, and the fluctuating exciting forces on submarine hull were abstracted and loaded onto the Fe model for structure harmonic analysis. then the flow-excited hull vib-acoustic was calculated via a refined integration algorithm of sound field. In this algorithm, the singular and nearfield integral coefficients of helmholtz equation were calculated via self-adaptive quadrature. results show that the equivalent radiated power decreases with the increase of frequency, which indicates the attenuation pattern of the hull vibration power. so, to reduce the flow-excited hull radiated noise, both the shape of the hull and its interior structures should be optimally designed to improve the wake of the hull and reduce the turbulent intensity, and the key point is to avoid resonance. 14.05 14.40 CHaraCTErIZaTION OF FLOW INDUCED CaVITY NOISE OF aN axISYMMETrIC UNDErWaTEr BODY USING CFD GV Krishna Kumar, Mohit Nigam and HN Das ,Naval Science and Technological Laboratory, India When an underwater axisymmetric body propels through the water, it generates noise limiting the performance of sonar fitted on it. this noise is related to fluid flow around the vehicle. degree to which turbulent flow induced noise impedes sonar performance depends mostly on the location of sonar. therefore, it is important to understand the flow pattern around the vehicle to identify a suitable location for installing the transducers. It is in this context that the impact of presence of a cavity on the flow field as well as on noise signature was studied. a Cavity on the surface of a vehicle greatly alters the flow pattern depending on whether it is deep or shallow. If the cavity is shallow, the broadband noise is dominant while if it is deep, it is dominated by tonal noise. however, noise generated in any cavity flow can be composed of a broadband noise component, which is introduced by the shear layer turbulence, and a tonal component superimposed on top of this broadband noise. COFFEE SEaKEEPING COMPUTaTIONS USING CFD J. Ramkumar, S. Dhavalikar, A. Lal,Indian Register of Shipping, India. In harsh environmental conditions there are large relative motions between ship and waves causing slamming. the calculation of slamming load involves the computation of ship motions due to waves and forces coming on to the ship structure. prediction of the wave induced motions, especially in the case of a viscous fluid is a challenging task and requires a coupled solution of the fluid flow and the body motions. With the advent of CFd techniques, it is easier to predict the ship motions and the wave induced forces on the structure more effectively which was not possible with model experiments for large ships and different wave conditions.In the present study ship motion computations for Wigley hull are performed the results are compared with experimental data. the dynamic load (slamming load) acting on the forward part of hull is computed. 15.45 16.20 MOTION SIMULaTION OF rO rO VESSEL IN DIrECTIONaL rEGULar SEa USING raNS SOLVEr B.M. Shameema, V.Anantha Subramanian, Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras, India the application of unsteady reynolds-averaged Navierstoke equation to solve the seakeeping problem is in its nascent stage at present. Not much work has been reported towards the motion solution in beam sea and oblique sea conditions, though the head sea condition problem has been addressed in some recent literature. this work attempts and demonstrates simulation of free decay tests for various mode of motions as well as motion response in different directional regular sea using raNs solver. the work demonstrates application of the technique in the case of a ro-ro vessel for which experimental results are available as reported in literature. the obtained CFd results of motion response for heave, pitch and roll are compared in head, beam and stern quartering seas with the experimental values .

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