• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2011

Cavitation is the formation of vapour bubbles of a flowing liquid in a region where the pressure of the liquid falls below its vapor pressure. Various types of cavitations are generated on the propeller blades. As cavity bubbles passing the blade are forced to oscillate in size or shape and come to collapse, they cause very strong local acoustic waves in the fluid and radiate noise. Comparing the Sound Pressure Level(SPL) before and after cavitation, SPL increases 2dB per 1 knot increase in ship speed above the cavitation inception speed(CIS). Consequently, the CIS is an important criteria to design silent propellers. In this work, experimental measurements of radiated noise according to various types of cavitations from the model propeller are carried out in a large cavitation tunnel and their acoustical characteristics are extensively investigated.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.770-775
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• 2010

As considerable interests in noise emission from the ships have been increased, control of the propeller cavitation generating vibration and radiating noise is looming large. In general, the tip vortex cavitation is first produced in case of full scale propellers, and noise levels rise dramatically from that moment. In order to reduce induced noise from the tip vortex cavitation and hence increase the cavity inception speed, we propose the mass injection method. Water injected from the propeller tip decreases rotating speed of the tip flow, and it restrains growing the tip vortex cavity. Experimental investigations of the model tests carried out in a large cavitation tunnel show that the tip vortex cavitation is effectively controled by water injection from the propeller tip.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제58권3호
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• pp.129-136
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• 2021

Cavitation erosion is one of the major factors causing damage by lowering the structural strength of the marine propeller and the risk of it has been qualitatively evaluated by each institution with their own criteria based on the experiences. In this study, in order to quantitatively evaluate the risk of cavitation erosion on the propeller, we implement a deep learning algorithm based on a convolutional neural network. We train and verify it using the model tests results, including cavitation characteristics of various ship types. Here, we adopt the validated well-known networks such as VGG, GoogLeNet, and ResNet, and the results are compared with the expert's qualitative prediction results to confirm the feasibility of the prediction algorithm using a convolutional neural network.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2019

In this paper, a pico hydro turbine employing low head circulation water at fish farms is designed and evaluated. Due to the advantages of simple structures, small head requirements, and low-cost investment, the constant thickness propeller turbine is considered as a feasible solution. The design process based on the free vortex method is presented in full detail, and a 4-blade runner is built using BladeGen. The turbine performance is analyzed both numerically and via experimental methods. Despite slight differences, the results show similar trends between CFD simulations and experiments carried out on factory test-rigs in a wide range of working conditions. At the design flow rate, the turbine achieves the best efficiency of 70 %, generating 3.5 kW power when rotating at 420 rpm. The internal flow field, as well as the turbine's behavior, are investigated through the distribution of blade streamlines, pressure, and velocity around the runner. Moreover, the pressure coefficient on the blade surface at 3 span positions is plotted while the head loss for each simulation domain is calculated and displayed by charts.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.75-85
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• 2021

The broadband noise can be dominant or important for total characteristics for marine propeller noise representing the minimum base of self-noise. Accurate prediction of such noise is crucial for survivability of underwater military vessels. While the FW-H Formulation 1B can be used to predict broadband trailing edge noise, the method required experiment measurements of surface pressure correlations, showing its limitations in generality. Therefore, in this study, the methods are developed to utilize wall pressure spectrum models to overcome those limitations. Chase model is adopted to represent surface pressure along with the developed formulations to reproduce pressure statistics. Newly developed method is validated with the experiments of airfoils at different velocities. Thereafter, with its feasibility and generality, the procedure incorporating computational fluid dynamics is established and performed for a propeller behind submarine hull. The results are compared with the experiments conducted at Large Cavitation Tunnel, thus showing its usability and robustness.

• 한국해양환경ㆍ에너지학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.264-272
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• 2011

도크 내 공정을 마치고 진수된 선박은 안벽에 계류된 상태로 주기관 등의 시험 검사를 수행하게 된다. 주기관 시험을 수행할 경우 선박은 안벽에 고정된 상태에서 수면 위로 날개가 노출된 프로펠러를 회전시켜야 하므로, 이때 발생하는 추력과 토오크를 예상하여 안전상 문제가 없도록 시험 조건 선정 및 설치를 수행하여야 한다. 날개가 수면위로 노출된 프로펠러는 회전수 및 축 잠김 깊이에 따라 수면 노출 및 공기 유입 등의 영향으로 추력 및 토오크 감소율이 변화하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 당사 실적 선박 프로펠러에 대해 모형 시험과 수치 해석을 통하여 회전수 및 축 잠김 깊이에 따른 추력 및 토오크 변화 특성을 파악하고 이를 바탕으로 부분 침수 프로펠러의 bollard pull 조건에 대한 추정식을 도출하였다. 도출된 추정식을 실선 계측 결과와 비교하여 정도 높은 추정 결과를 제공하고 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권9호
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• pp.1170-1174
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• 2014

추진기에서 캐비테이션이 발생되면 효율이 저하되고 진동과 소음이 발생한다. 소음은 캐비테이션이 처음으로 발생되는 시점부터 크게 증가되므로 캐비테이션 초생속도(CIS)를 가능한 높이는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문에서는 가변추진기의 캐비테이션 초기발생 현상을 확인하기 위하여 처음으로 캐비테이션 실선관측을 수행하였다. 관측 결과 가변추진에서 캐비테이션 초기발생은 볼트 캐비테이션으로 확인되어 볼트부위를 개선한 새로운 형상의 가변추진기를 제안하였다. 개선된 가변추진기에서는 볼트 캐비테이션이 전혀 발생되지 않았으며, CIS는 개선 전 가변추진기 보다 약 4.5 노트 향상된 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과는 향후 저소음 가변추진기 개발과 CIS 성능 향상에 매우 유용한 자료로 활용될 것이다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.69-91
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• 1982

The major factors which affect the crankshaft axial vibration are such items as the axial stiffness and mass of crankshaft, the thrust block stiffness, the propeller's entrained water and the exciting and damping forces of engine, propeller and shafting. Among above mentioned items, the axial stiffness and mass of crankshaft, thrust block stiffness and propeller's entrained water were treated in detail in part I, and so in this paper, the rest of above items will be studied. The exciting forces of crankshaft axial vibration are generated mainly from the gas explosion pressure of cylinder, the thrust fluctuation of propeller, and sometimes the torsional vibration of crankshaft induces the crankshaft axial vibration. As for the propeller thrust fluctuation, its harmonic components can be fairly exactly calculated from the experimental results of propeller in the towing tank, but as the calculation process is rather tedious and laborious, the empirical values are ordinarily used. On the other hand, the table of harmonic components of gas pressure has been already published by major slow speed diesel engine makers, but the axial thrust conversion factor of radial force is not unknown yet, and as its estimated value is unreliable, the axial vibration force of gas pressure is uncertain. As the calculation of damping force is very complicated and it includes some uncertain factors, the thoretically estimated amplitudes of axial vibration are much more incorrect in comparison with those of torsional vibrations. Authors have paid special attentions to deriving the theoretical calculation formula of axial conversion factor of radial force and damping force of crankshaft axial vibration and developed a computer program to calculate resonance amplitudes and additional stresses of crankshaft axial vibrations. Also, to check the reliability of the developed computer program, the axial vibrations of three ships' propulsion shaftings were analyzed and their results were compared with those of measured values and makers' results.

• 대한조선학회 특별논문집
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• 대한조선학회 2005년도 특별논문집
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• pp.97-106
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• 2005

According to the trends of construction of large size vessel with high power the natural frequencies of the bending modes of propeller blades have been lower than the past. Therefore, it is expected that the noise and vibration problems of the marine propeller are frequently occurred. As main issue of the propeller noise and vibration problem, the cavitation noise and singing noise due to the flow induced excitation of the bending modes of propeller blade in the high frequency range has been studied by the hydrodynamic researchers in the view point of the excitation force reduction. In this paper, the vibration mode characteristics of propeller with a large diameter in very large vessel are investigated by the vibration analysis of the finite element method using MSC/Nastran and the vibration measurement by the impact test on the propeller blade. According to the results, the natural frequencies of various blade bending modes in water entrained condition could be estimated from the natural frequencies taken by the measurement and free vibration analysis in the dry condition, and it could be estimated how the high frequency noise such as singing is generated from the blade bending modes.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2011

In order to control the tip vortex cavitation occurring around the tip of a rotating propeller blade, researches on the propeller cavitation and blade tip vortex flows have been increased. In this paper, the propeller tip vortex flow for a blunt and sharp tips was studied using an unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations solver based on a cell-centered finite volume method. In numerical open water test, torques, thrusts, pressure distributions and vortex flows were compared for various rotating speeds. To consider a hull wake, the nominal wake was specified in inlet boundary condition. Pressure distributions and vortex flows with the hull wake were investigated for various propeller rotating angles. From the results, it was confirmed that the blunt tip propeller delayed the tip vortex flow.