• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.289-316
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• 2020

In the present paper, the effect of the location of stern planes on the flow entering the submarine propeller is studied numerically. These planes are mounted on three longitudinal positions on the submarine stern. The results are presented considering the flow field characteristics such as non-dimensional pressure coefficient, effective drag and lift forces on the stern plane, and the wake flow formed at the rear of the submarine where the propeller is located. In the present study, the submarine is studied at fully immersed condition without considering the free surface effects. The numerical results are verified with the experimental data. It is concluded that as the number of planes installed at the end of the stern section along the submarine model increases, the average velocity, width of the wake flow and its turbulence intensity formed at the end of the submarine enhance. This leads to a reduction in the non-uniformity of the inlet flow to the propulsion system.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.322-329
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• 2005

Viscous flows behind transom stern are analyzed based on CFD simulation results. Stern wave pattern is often complicated due to the abrupt change of stern surface curvature and flow separation at transom. When a ship advances at high speed, whole transom stern is exposed out of water, resulting in the so-called 'dry transom'. However, in the moderate speed regime, stern wave development in conjunction of flow separation makes unstable wavy surface partially covering transom surface, i.e., the so-called 'wetted transom'. Transom wave formation is usually affecting the resistance characteristics of a ship, since the pressure contribution on transom surface as well as the wave-making resistance is changed. Flow modeling for 'wetted transom' is difficult, while the 'dry transom modeling' is often applied for the high-speed vessels. In the present study CFD results from the RANS equation solver using a finite volume method with level-set treatment are utilized to assess the topology of transom flow pattern for a destroyer model (DTMB5415) and a container ship (KCS). It is found that transom flow patterns are quite different for the two ships, in conformity to the shape of submerged transom. Furthermore, the existence of free surface seems to after the flow topology in case of KCS.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-23
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• 2020

Hydrodynamic Drag of Surface combatants pose significant challenges with regard to fuel efficiency and exhaust emissions. Stern flaps have been used widely as an energy saving device, particularly by the US Navy (Hemanth et al. 2018a, Hemanth Kumar and Vijayakumar 2018b). In the present investigation the effect of flap turning angle on drag reduction is numerically and experimentally studied for a high-speed displacement surface combatant fitted with a stern flap in the Froude number range of 0.17-0.48. Parametric investigations are undertaken for constant chord length & span and varying turning angles of 5° 10° & 15°. Experimental resistance values in towing tank tests were validated with CFD. Investigations revealed that pressure increased as the flow velocity decreased with an increase in flap turning angle which was due to the centrifugal action of the flow caused by the induced concave curvature under the flap. There was no significant change in stern wave height but there was a gradual increase in the stern wave steepness with flap angle. Effective length of the vessel increased by lengthening of transom hollow. In low Froude number regime, flow was not influenced by flap curvature effects and pressure recovery was marginal. In the intermediate and high Froude number regimes pressure recovery increased with the flap turning angle and flow velocity.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.361-369
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• 2008

The optimized distance between skegs and angle of the skeg for a standard twin-skeg type LNG carrier were presented using the CFD and model tests. The evaluation method of self-propulsion performance was derived based on the results of CFD and confirmed the validity through model tests. The analyses to assess self-propulsion performance using CFD were shown by flow line patterns on the skeg surface, nominal wake distribution in the propeller plane and the evaluation for flow balance around stern skegs. The optimized ship that was applied to the optimized two design parameters in stern skeg arrangement for target ship was derived in this work. Finally speed performance of mother ship which is existing ship and optimized ship were compared through CFD and model tests. And the usefulness about the evaluation method of self-propulsion performance was reconfirmed.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2004

Twin-skeg type stern shapes are recently adopted for very large commercial ships. However it is difficult to apply a CFD system to a hull form having twin-skeg, since grid topology around a twin-skeg type stern is more complicated than that of a conventional single-screw ship, or of an open-shaft type twin-screw ship with center-skeg. In the present study a surface mesh generator and a multi-block field grid generation program have been developed for twin-skeg type stern. Furthermore, multi-block flow solvers are utilized for potential and viscous flow analysis around a twin-skeg type stern The present computational system is applied to a 15,000TEU container ship with twin-skeg to prove the applicability. Wave profiles and wake distribution are calculated using the developed flow analysis tools and the results are compared with towing tank measurements.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.1391-1397
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 선형의 형상에 의하여 만곡부분이 존재하여 교차류의 성분이 증가하고, 이것에 의한 만곡와가 형성될 때에는 주유속 방향의 속도성분을 그것에 합당하게 개량해 줌으로서 더욱 유효한 속도분포 계산을 행할수 있으므로 Coles 유동 모델보다도 우수한 멱법칙 유동모델의 개선을 시도하였다. 그 방법으로서는 합성속 도를 멱법칙으로 가정하고 Okuno의 교차류 모델을 이용하여 새로운 주유동 방향의 유 속모델을 개선된 멱법칙의 식으로 표시하였다. 그리고 개선된 주유동 모델식을 이용 한 계산값과 다른 모델식의 계산값과 비교 검토하여 그 타당성을 조사하고, 또 만곡와 의 현상이 나타나는 Series 60(C$_{B}$=0.6)인 선형 선미 주위의 주유속 분포를 위치 별로 계산하고 이를 다른 계산결과 및 실험결과 값과 각각 비교하여, 여기서 제안된 모델이 더욱 개선되었음을 보이고, 또 그 타당성을 검토하였다.다.

• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2004

A numerical method is developed for computing the free surface flows around a transom stern of a ship at a high Froude number. At high speed, the flow may be detached from the flat transom stern. In the limit of the high Froude number, the problem becomes a planning problem. In the present study, we make the finite-element computations for a transom stern flows around a wedge-shaped floating ship. The numerical method is based on the Hamilton's principle. The problem is formulated as an initial value problem with nonlinear free surface conditions. In the numerical procedures, the domain was discretized into a set of finite elements and the numerical quadrature was used for the functional equation. The time integrations of the nonlinear free surface condition are made iteratively at each time step. A set of large algebraic equations is solved by GMRES(Generalized Minimal RESidual, Saad and Schultz 1986) method which is proven very efficient. The computed results are compared with previous numerical results obtained by others.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2001

1993년 IMO가 채택한 조종성 잠정기준에서 요구되는 4가지 항목 중, 특히 비대 선박의 경우, 침로 안정성이 문제시될 수 있다는 것은 잘 알려진 사실이다. 본 연구에서는 비대 선박의 조종운동시 타의 크기에 따른 선미 유동 특성을 조사하기 위해서 회류수조에서 사항상태의 조건 하에 두 종류의 모형실험을 수행하였다. 즉, 첫번째 실험은 타에 유입하는 흐름의 정류효과 측정에 대한 것이고, 두번째 실험은 타 상부와 선미오버행 하부 공간 주위의 흐름가시화에 대한 것이다. 실험결과, 타의 크기에 따른 선미 유동 특성과 타에 유입하는 흐름의 정류효과의 상관관계를 규명하였고, 타 상부와 선미오버행 하부의 공간은 침로 안정성에 있어서 중요한 역할을 한다는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 특히 타 상부와 선미오버행 하부의 공간이 작을수록 침로 안정성이 저하될 가능성이 높다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2011년 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.550-555
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• 2011

The objective of this study is to investigate flow characteristics of a underwater vehicle by installing pins, using CFD method with a commercial code FLUENT version 6.3.26. To verify the reliability of the computation, the drag is compared the CFD with the experimental test. The drag is increased about 15% by installing 4 pins. At the stern of the body, the turbulent flow is generated by installing pins. Also, the results showed that the drag increase in the stern of the body, not in the pins.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2016

Nowadays, large container ships are continually developed and that's why the bow and stern structural stability problems by slamming become a significant more and more. However, due to the complexity of slamming, it is difficult to consider those problems at the design stage. For this reason, we attempt numerical analysis through SNUFOAM by generating the bow and stern two-dimensional cross-sectional grid in WILS JIP experiment at KRISO. Unlike the conventional method for the computation time saving, by setting the inlet flow conditions referred to the model test, we analyzed the slamming without applying the grid deformation method. As a result, when the stern model, as in the previous studies, it was possible to obtain quantitatively the fluid impulse is close to the experimental results. When the bow model, we can found the change by the position of force sensors which are derived for the bulbous bow and obtained fluid impulse and flow shape at slamming similar to the model test.