Numerical study of periodically forced-pitching of a supercavitating vehicle

Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B - Tập 22 - Trang 856-861 - 2010
Zhan-cheng Pan1, Chuan-jing Lu1,2, Ying Chen1, Shi-liang Hu1
1Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
2State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China

Tóm tắt

The unsteady behaviors, such as surging, heaving and pitching motion, which often occur during the advancing of supercavitating vehicle, has significant effect on the stability of supercavitaty and the trajectory of the vehicle. This paper presents a 3-dimentional numerical simulation of periodically forced-pitching of supercavitating vehicle. Based on the finite volume method and the pressure-based segregate algorithm, in the framework of Mixture multiphase model, associated with dynamic mesh method, the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations are solved for the ventilated cavitating flow field in a cavitation tunnel. For both steady-state and dynamic cases, the numerical results agree with the experimental results very well. When the vehicle is pitching periodically, the profile of the supercavity doesn’t vary significantly. The pressure inside the cavity fluctuates slightly during the pitching motion, while the pressure fluctuates significantly at the rear of the down-line of the vehicle. The hydrodynamic forces of the vehicle oscillated periodically, but not linear related to the pitching motion.

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