• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.132-140
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• 2010

The very erosive cavitation is simulated by an inclined propeller dynamometer in the medium-size cavitation tunnel of MOERI. The inclined shaft for propeller makes strong cavitaion, which occurs around the root of a propeller blade. The cavitation begins at the leading edge of the propeller and contracted toward the trailing edge through the reentrant jet action. The cavity focused on the region near the trailing edge collapsed over the blade surface. As the impact pressure by the cavitation collapsing is too strong, it can damage the blade surface in the form of pit. This cavitation impacts created by the collapsing process are similar to the full-scale ones and are different from those by other erosion test methods. The newly developed cavitation erosion test method can be applied to evaluate the materials such as metals, ceramics and coatings in terms of cavitation resistance.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2000

수중에서 프로펠러에 의해 추진되는 추진체를 식별하기 위해 프로펠러의 추진력에 의하여 수중에 발생되는 cavitation의 비선형 음향학적 현상으로부터 발생되는 프로펠러의 shaft-rates와 blade-rates를 탐지하여 표적을 식별하기 위한 Maximum Likelihood Classifier를 유도하고, 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통한 검증을 수행하였고, 실제 해양에서 수집한 데이터에 대해 적용 가능함을 입증하였다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.467-473
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• 2007

Cavitation phenomena appearing on ship propellers have long been interested and recent theoretical analysises give good results comparing with model tests. In accordance with a continuous rise in heavy powered and high speed ships, hull forms have been changed and loads acting on the propeller surface have also been increased, and they result in various and particular cavitations. In some cases, cavitation appears not only on the back but also on the face of the propeller and it causes additive pressure fluctuations and erosion of the propeller and reduces propulsion efficiency of the ship. In this study, we predict the face cavity inception using unsteady propeller analysis based on the panel method and compare the results with experimental observations.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.238-246
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• 2008

In the present study, the influences on the gap cavitaiton of the semi-spade rudder are investigated experimentally in the condition with propeller and hull wakes. To reduce the scale effect in the given experimental conditions, 1/28.5-scale-down models of propeller and rudder are manufactured. We have the propeller rotate ahead of the rudder, inducing the three dimensional effects originated from the propeller action. Experimental methods are composed of the cavitation observation using high speed camera, PIV (particle image velocimetry) measurements to visualize the cavitaition and flows around the gap. The propeller slipstream affects both of the gap flows and cavitation of the rudder.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 학술대회
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• pp.321-326
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• 2008

The engineering use of CFD is recently extending to the prediction of maneuvering characteristics, response to waves, propeller performance, and so on. The focus of the research is shifting to simulation of more complex processes. Typical examples of such processes are bow or stern slamming, green water problem, propeller cavitation, hull-propeller interaction, or drag reduction by bubble injection. Those processes are characterized by keywords such as high nonlinearity, unsteadiness, multiphase flow. In this paper, two new attempts which have been recently made by the author's research grop are presented. One is the prediction of propeller cavitation and its effect to the ship hull. The others is the application to the drag reduction by use of air bubbles.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.321-326
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• 2008

The engineering use of CFD is recently extending to the prediction of maneuvering characteristics, response to waves, propeller performance, and so on. The focus of the research is shifting to simulation of more complex processes. Typical examples of such processes are bow or stern slamming, green water problem, propeller cavitation, hull-propeller interaction, or drag reduction by bubble injection. Those processes are characterized by keywords such as high nonlinearity, unsteadiness, multiphase flow. In this paper, two new attempts which have been recently made by the author's research group are presented. One is the prediction of propeller cavitation and its effect to the ship hull. The other is the application to the drag reduction by use of air bubbles.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.49-65
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• 2020

In this study, the effects of inclined shaft angle on the hydro-acoustic performance of cavitating marine propellers are investigated by a numerical method developed before and Brown's empirical formula. The cavitating blades are represented by source and vortex elements. The cavity characteristics of the blades such as cavitation form, cavity volume, cavity length etc., are computed at a given cavitation number and at a set advance coefficient. A lifting surface method is applied for these calculations. The numerical lifting surface method is validated with experimental results of DTMB 4119 model benchmark propeller. After calculation of hydrodynamic characteristics of the cavitating propeller, noise spectrum and overall sound pressure level (OASPL) are computed by Brown's equation. This empirical equation is also validated with another numerical results found in the literature. The effects of inclined shaft angle on thrust coefficient, torque coefficient, efficiency and OASPL values are examined by a parametric study. By modifying the inclination angles of propeller, the thrust, torque, efficiency and OASPL are computed and compared with each other. The influence of the inclined shaft angle on cavity patterns on the blades are also discussed.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.40-51
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• 1991

캐비테이션 특성이 우수하고 추진효율이 높은 콘테이너선용 프로펠러를 설계하기 위하여 새로운 날개단면(KH18)을 이용한 프로펠러 설계법을 제안하였다. KH18 단면은 캐비테이션 초생곡선(Cavitation-free bucket diagram) 및 양력-항력곡선(Lift-drag curve)에서 폭이 넓어 불균일한 선미후류에서 작동되는 선박용 프로펠러의 날개 단면으로 적당하리라 판단되었다. 새로운 날개 단면을 이용한 콘테이너선의 프로펠러 설계를 위하여 양력면이론을 사용하였다. 프로펠러 설계시 코오드 방향 부하분포를 설계변수로 선택하여 5개의 프로펠러를 설계하였고, 단면 변화의 영향을 비교하기 위하여 NACA형 단면을 갖는 프로펠를 설계하여 예인수조 및 캐비테이션 터널에서 모형시험을 수행하였다. 모형시험 결과 코오드 방향 부하분포가 프로펠러 반경의 70% 내부에서는 날개 앞날의 부하가 적고 그 외부에서는 날개 앞날부하가 상대적으로 큰 코오드방향 부하분포를 갖는 프로펠러(KP197)가 NACA 단면을 갖는 프로펠러에 비하여 추진효율은 1% 향상되었고 캐비테이션 발생양은 30% 감소하였으며 선체변동압력은 9%감소하였다. 새로운 날개단면을 갖는 프로펠러의 캐비테이션 특성이 우수함을 고려하여 낱개 전개면적비를 감소시킨다면 더 많은 추진효율 증가를 기대할 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.215-226
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• 2017

This paper presents numerical results of the performance of a marin propeller in cavitating and non-cavitating flow conditions. The geometry and experimental validation data of the propeller are provided in Potsdam Propeller Test Case(PPTC) in the framework of the second International Symposium on Marine Propulsors 2011(SMP'11) workshop. The PPTC includes open water tests, velocity field measurements and cavitation tests. The present numerical analysis was carried out by using the Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) method on a wall-resolved grid ensuring a y+=1, where the SST k-${\omega}$ model was mainly used for turbulence closure. The influence of the turbulence model was investigated in the prediction of the wake field under a non-cavitating flow condition. The propeller tip vortex flows in both cavitating and non-cavitating conditions were captured through adaptation of additional grids. For the cavitation flows at three operation points, Schnerr-Sauer's cavitation model was used with a Volume-Of Fluid(VOF) approach to capture the two-phase flows. The present numerical results for the propeller wake and cavitation predictions including the open water performance showed a qualitatively reasonable agreement with the model test results.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.546-558
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• 2013

The research performed in this paper was carried out to investigate the numerical analysis of the sheet cavitation on marine propeller. The method is boundary element method (BEM). Using the Green's theorem, the velocity potential is expressed as an integral equation on the surface of the propeller by hyperboloid-shaped elements. Employing the boundary conditions, the potential is determined via solving the resulting system of equations. For the case study, a DTMB4119 propeller is analyzed with and without cavitating conditions. The pressure distribution and hydrodynamic performance curves of the propellers as well as cavity thickness obtained by numerical method are calculated and compared by the experimental results. Specifically in this article cavitation changes are investigate in both the radial and chord direction. Thus, cross flow variation has been studied in the formation and growth of sheet cavitation. According to the data obtained it can be seen that there is a better agreement and less error between the numerical results gained from the present method and Fluent results than Hong Sun method. This confirms the accurate estimation of the detachment point and the cavity change in radial direction.