Numerical Simulation of ONRT Turning Motion in Regular Waves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Ye ◽  
Jiawei Yu ◽  
Liwei Liu ◽  
Qing Wang ◽  
Zhiguo Zhang

Abstract Numerically simulating a ship with six-degrees-of-freedom response motions of an unsteady maneuver in a wave environment is very important in seakeeping characteristics of ship design. This paper presents the simulation studies of the turning motion in regular waves of the ONRT model. Numerical simulations were performed using viscous CFD code HUST-Ship to solve the RANS equation coupled with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) solid body motion equations and dynamic overset grids designed for ship hydrodynamics. RANS equations are solved by the finite difference method (FDM) and PISO arithmetic. The level-set method is used to simulate the free surface flow. Before the turning circle simulation, a V&V study is conducted for the total towed resistance. The real propeller was replaced by a description body force method in the process of turning motion. The constant rate of the revolution was applied throughout the simulation. The rotation of the propeller corresponds to the self-propulsion point of the model speed. The control of rudders was controlled by the following autopilot. The maximum rudder rate was assigned to 35.0 [deg/s]. The ship was released when a wave crest is passing the midship. The study focused on the parameters of the trajectories for turning circle, roll, pitch, velocity, etc, it is helpful to judge the influence of the wave on the turning motion. The simulation results match well with test data from IIHR.

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (02) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Chung Fang ◽  
Jhih-Hong Luo ◽  
Ming-Ling Lee

In the paper, a simplified six degrees of freedom mathematical model encompassing calm water maneuvering and traditional seakeeping theories is developed to simulate the ship turning circle test in regular waves. A coordinate system called the horizontal body axes system is used to present equations of maneuvering motion in waves. All corresponding hydrodynamic forces and coefficients for seakeeping are time varying and calculated by strip theory. For simplification, the added mass and damping coefficients are calculated using the constant draft but vary with encounter frequency. The nonlinear mathematical model developed here is successful in simulating the turning circle of a containership in sea trial conditions and can be extended to make the further simulation for the ship maneuvering under control in waves. Manuscript received at SNAME headquarters February 19, 2003; revised manuscript received January 27, 2004.


Author(s):  
Dakui Feng ◽  
Xuanshu Chen ◽  
Hao Liu ◽  
Zhiguo Zhang ◽  
Xianzhou Wang

Submarine is usually equipped with two different control device arrangements, namely a cruciform and a X rudder configuration. In this paper, numerical simulations of the DARPA Suboff submarine and its retrofitted submarine with a X rudder configuration are presented. Turning simulations in model scale were studied to compare the turning abilities of the two different control device arrangements. The computations were performed with a house viscous CFD solver based on the conservative finite difference method. In the solver, RANS equation are solved coupled with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) solid body motion equations of the submarine in real time. The structured dynamic overlapping grids were used to simulate the real-time changes of the attitude of the submarine and the rotation of the rudder. The volume force method was used to replace the real propeller to realize the self-propelled movement of submarine. In the free running maneuvering simulations, the submarines move at the same initial velocity and rudder angle, restricted to the horizontal plane with four degrees of freedom (4DOF). Comparisons of the trajectory and kinematic parameters including relative turning radius and turning period between the two cases were presented in this paper. The results show that, compared with the cruciform rudder configuration, the X rudder configuration has obvious advantages for submarine in the turning abilities.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueshen Xie ◽  
Yuxiang Wan ◽  
Qing Wang ◽  
Hao Liu ◽  
Dakui Feng

Abstract A numerical simulation of the hydrodynamic interaction and attitude of a ship and two ships of different sizes navigating in parallel in waves were carried out in this paper. The study of the two ships navigating in parallel is of great significance in marine replenishment. This paper used in house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code to solve unsteady RANS equation coupled with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) solid body motion equations. URANS equations are solved by finite difference method and PISO algorithm. Structured grid with overset technology have been used to make computations. Turbulence models used the Shear Stress Transport (SST) k-ω model. The method used for free surface simulation is single phase level set. In this paper, two DTMB 5415 with different scales are selected for simulation analysis. This paper analyzed the impact of the big ship on the small ship when the two ships were navigating in parallel. This paper also analyzed the relationship between interaction and velocity between hulls, which has certain guiding significance for the ship’s encounter on the sea.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Wang ◽  
Xuanshu Chen ◽  
Liwei Liu ◽  
Xianzhou Wang ◽  
MingJing Liu

Abstract The dangerous situation caused by the breakage of the ship will pose a serious threat to crew and ship safety. If the ship’s liquid cargo or fuel leaks, it will cause serious damage to the marine environment. If damage occurs accompanied by roll and other motions, it may cause more dangerous consequences. It is an important issue to study the damaged ship in time-domain. In this paper, the motions of the damaged DTMB 5512 in calm water and regular beam waves are studied numerically. The ship motions are analyzed through CFD methods, which are acknowledged as a reliable approach to simulate and analyze these complex physical phenomena. An in-house CFD (computational fluid dynamics) code HUST-Ship (Hydrodynamic Unsteady Simulation Technology for Ship) is used for solving RANS equations coupled with six degrees of freedom (6DOF) solid body motion equations. RANS equations discretized by finite difference method and solved by PISO algorithm. Level set was used for free surface simulation. The dynamic behavior of model was observed in both intact and damaged condition. The heave, roll and pitch amplitudes of the damaged ship were studied in calm water and beam wave of three wavelengths.


Author(s):  
Weijian Jiang ◽  
Zhilin Wang ◽  
Ran He ◽  
Xianzhou Wang ◽  
Dakui Feng

Submarine surfacing in waves is three dimensional unsteady motion and includes complex coupling between force and motion. This paper uses computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to solve RANS equation with coupled six degrees of freedom solid body motion equations. RANS equations are solved by finite difference method and PISO arithmetic. Level-set method is used to simulate the free surface. Computations were performed for the standard DARPA SUBOFF model. The structured dynamic overset grid is applied to the numerical simulation of submarine surfacing (no forward speed) in regular waves and computation cases include surfacing in the calm water, transverse regular waves with different ratio of wave height and submarine length (h/L = 0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04) and transverse regular waves with different ratio of wave length and submarine length (λ/L = 0.5, 1, 1.5). The asymmetric vortices in the process of submarine surfacing can be captured. It proves that roll instability is caused by the destabilizing hydrodynamic rolling moment overcoming the static righting moment both under the water and in regular waves. Relations among maximum roll angle, surfacing velocity fluctuation and wave parameters are concluded by comparison with variation trend of submarine motion attitude and velocity of surfacing in different wave conditions. Simulation results confirm that wave height h/L = 0.04 and wave length λ/L = 1.5 lead to surfacing velocity fluctuation significantly. Maximum roll angle increases with the increase of wave height and wave length. Especially the law presents approximate linear relationship. Maximum roll angle with wave height (h/L = 0.04) can reach to 7.29° while maximum roll angle with wave length (λ/L = 1.5) can reach to 5.79° by contrast with 0.85° in calm water. According to the above conclusions, maneuverability can be guided in the process of submarine surfacing in waves in order to avoid potential safety hazard.


1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
F. Noblesse ◽  
G. Triantafyllou

Several explicit approximations for calculating nonlifting potential flow about a body in an unbounded fluid are studied. These approximations are shown to be exact in the particular cases of flows due to translations of ellipsoids, and they are compared with the exact potential for two-dimensional flows about ogives in translatory motions. Two approximations, given by formulas (31) and (32) in the conclusion, appear to be of particular interest for practical applications, and they can be extended to free-surface flow problems, for example, ship wave resistance, and radiation and diffraction of regular waves by a body.


Author(s):  
Shingo Yamanaka ◽  
Takayuki Hirai ◽  
Yasunori Nihei ◽  
Akira Sou

Advanced spar type of the floating wind turbine with a short spar and a cylindrical column floater has been developed and tested recently. However, numerical methods to accurately simulate the interaction between the advanced spar and waves have not been established yet. In this study we simulated the free surface flow around an advanced spar in regular waves using open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software OpenFOAM to examine its applicability. We used olaFOAM which equipped with the functions to set the boundary conditions of wave generation at the inlet and wave absorption at the exit. An experiment of the advanced spar model fixed in space in the regular waves with various wave periods was also conducted to obtain an experimental database on the horizontal and vertical forces acting on the structure and pressure distribution on the floater surface. The results of the forces obtained by the numerical simulation, experiment, Morison’s equation were compared to examine the validity of the numerical model. Numerical and experimental results of the horizontal and vertical forces as well as pressure distribution on the floater surface were in good agreement, which confirmed the validity of the present numerical method. Then, we evaluated numerically the effects of the edge of the column by simulating a sharp-edged and a chamfered column floater. The result clarified that a chamfered edge decreased the wake which reduced the forces acting on the floater structure.


Author(s):  
Jinhong Qu ◽  
Kenn R. Oldham

A multiple-mode dynamic model is developed for a piezoelectrically-actuated micro-robot with multiple legs. The motion of the micro robot results from dual direction motion of piezoelectric actuators in the legs, while the complexity of micro robot locomotion is increased by impact dynamics. The dynamic model is developed to describe and predict the micro robot motion, in the presence of asymmetrical behavior due to non-ideal fabrication and variable properties of the underlying terrain. The dynamic model considers each robot leg as a continuous structure moving in two directions derived from beam theory with specific boundary condition. Robot body motion is modeled in six degrees of freedom using a rigid body approximation. Individual modes of the resulting multimode robot are treated as second order linear systems. The dynamic model is tested with a meso-scale robot prototype having a similar actuation scheme as micro-robots. In accounting for the interaction between robot and ground, the dynamic model with first two modes of each leg shows good match with experimental results for the mesoscale prototype, in terms of both magnitude and the trends of robot locomotion with respect to actuation conditions.


2013 ◽  
Vol 816-817 ◽  
pp. 825-830
Author(s):  
Yun Long Wang ◽  
Wei Min Lv ◽  
Jia Chen Feng ◽  
Yong Chuan Jin

Waves in different sea conditions are simulated by the Bretscheider double parameters spectrum using randomly chosen discrete frequencies as its parameters. Ship motion model of six degrees of freedom is established under the Ship coordinates system. As the ship system is linear, the ship motion under irregular waves can be calculated through the amplitude-frequency response function obtained by solving the model when the input is the superposition of regular waves. Finally according to the coordinate transformation between the ship coordinates system and the missile coordinates system, the motion of the shipboard missiles under excitation of sea waves can be analyzed to support the environmental analysis of its combat duty process.


Author(s):  
Sadanori Ishihara ◽  
Masashi Yamakawa ◽  
Takeshi Inomono ◽  
Shinichi Asao

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