Experimental and Numerical Study of Effective Wake of a Ship

  • Park, J.W. (Samsung Heavy Industries, Shipbuilding & Plant Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, J.J. (Samsung Heavy Industries, Shipbuilding & Plant Research Institute) ;
  • D.S. Kong (Samsung Heavy Industries, Shipbuilding & Plant Research Institute) ;
  • J.M. Lew (Chungnam National University, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering)
  • Published : 2003.06.01

Abstract

LDV measurements in large cavitation tunnel around a propeller in operation are carried out to provide valuable information for more accurate wake-adapted propeller design and to study hull-propeller interactions. Effective velocities are computed by both the simplified vortex ring method and by RANS solver with the body force representing the propeller load. The former method uses the nominal velocities measured at the propeller plane as an input data of the numerical method and shows a better agreement with experimental data. The latter shows the qualitative agreement and may be used as an alternative design tools in the preliminary design stage.

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