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Chunyu Guo, Xu Wang, Chongge Chen, Yinghong Li and Jian Hu
Propulsion noise is an enduring problem of significant military and environmental importance. Hence, it is crucial to investigate propeller noise characteristics. In this study, the hydrodynamic performance and noise level of the DARPA (Defense Advanced ...
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Chen-Wei Chen, Zhao-Ye Zhou, Xu-Peng Chen and Xiao-Jing Zhou
Due to the lack of a powerful propulsion device in conventional autonomous underwater gliders (AUGs), their mobility and flexibility are insufficient, thus not being capable of also ensuring the stability of the motion route. Thus, it is necessary to fur...
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Yanlin Zou, Dakui Feng, Weihua Deng, Jun Yang and Hang Zhang
Waterjet?hull interaction is the hot point and research focus in the research of waterjet-propelled crafts. This paper presents numerical studies on the interaction between a waterjet system and a catamaran. Numerical simulations of both bare hull and se...
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Hai Luo, Jiangming Ding, Jiabing Jiang, Lingxun Li, Jie Gong and Ning Lyu
Pump-jets have a relatively high propulsion efficiency at medium speed and in heavy-load conditions for wheeled amphibious vehicles. However, the geometry of amphibious vehicles is very special due to the installation requirements of the pump-jet, which ...
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Changzhe Chen, Lu Zou, Zaojian Zou and Haipeng Guo
Propeller modeling in virtual captive model tests is crucial to the prediction accuracy of ship maneuvering motion. In the present study, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method with two propeller modeling methods, Sliding Mesh (SM) and Multiple Re...
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Haodong Shang, Chengsheng Zhan and Zuyuan Liu
The typical maneuvering of a ship can reflect its maneuvering characteristics, which are closely related to the safety and economy of its navigation. The accurate prediction of a ship?s maneuvering characteristics is essential for its preliminary design....
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Weixin Zhang, Ye Li, Yulei Liao, Qi Jia and Kaiwen Pan
The wave-driven catamaran is a small surface vehicle driven by ocean waves. It consists of a hull and hydrofoils, and has a multi-body dynamic structure. The process of moving from static state to autonomous navigation driven by ocean waves is called ?se...
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Dibo Pan, Xiaojun Xu and Bolong Liu
In order to reduce the additional resistance of high-speed amphibious vehicles, Flanks are designed on the concave grooves. As a new drag reduction attachment, the principle of Flanks is analyzed and discussed in detail. In this paper, the HSAV model and...
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Wenyu Sun, Qiong Hu, Shiliang Hu, Jia Su, Jie Xu, Jinfang Wei and Guofu Huang
Accurate prediction of the self-propulsion performance is one of the most important factors for the energy-efficient design of a ship. In general, the hydrodynamic performance of a full-scale ship could be achieved by model-scale simulation or towing tan...
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S. Polyzos and G. Tzabiras
The present work describes a simplified Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach in order to calculate the propulsive performance of a ship moving at steady forward speed in head seas. The proposed method combines experimental data concerning the adde...
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