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Hanqiao Han, Yun Long and Jinqing Zhong
When we tested the water jet propulsion pump, we found that there were significant vibrations in the pump, especially at small flow points that deviated from the design conditions. The water jet propulsion pump is a mixed-flow pump with guide vane, which...
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Shlomit Valensi and Alon Gany
Open-sea testing of a two-phase marine ramjet vehicle has been conducted. This experimental phase was accomplished following comprehensive theoretical research. The concept of two-phase marine ramjet propulsion consists of a submerged propulsor acquiring...
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Jure Sr?e, Marko Perkovic and Aleksander Grm
The environmental effects of ship propellers were not even close to fully examined before the current massive ships were introduced to sea trade. Larger ships, result in greater length, beam, draft and propulsion power. Of concern here is the under-keel ...
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Yu Wang, Yujie Wang, Yaxin Li and Cheng Ren
This paper proposes a hybrid propulsion-based small underwater robot for robust trajectory tracking control in a harsh and complex underwater environment. The robot is equipped with a Coanda-effect jet thruster and a pair of propeller-based reconfigurabl...
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Zeqi Shi, Xiangkui Tan, Yiwei Wang, Pengyu Lv, Yong Zou, Xia Wan, Kai Lv, Bingzhen Li, Huiling Duan and Hongyuan Li
Unmanned equipment, such as unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), are widely used in marine science for underwater observation, rescue, military purposes, etc. However, current vehicles are not applicable in complex cr...
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Dagang Zhao, Yang Zhang, Qian He, Cong Sun and Mingqi Bi
The acceleration characteristics of a water jet-propelled ship during startup are related to its performance under mooring conditions. Water jet propulsion cavitation during startup increases the vibration and noise of the whole ship. Therefore, accurate...
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Yeming Lu, Haoran Liu, Xiaofang Wang and Hui Wang
Due to the higher propulsive efficiency, lesser vibration, and better maneuverability, the water jet pump is widely applied to high-speed underwater vehicles. By taking a newly developed water jet pump system as the object, the corresponding underwater v...
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Fuzheng Li, Qiaogao Huang, Guang Pan, Denghui Qin and Han Li
In order to improve the hydrodynamic performance of pump-jet propulsion (PJP) when matching stator with the rotor, the RANS method with SST k-? turbulence model is employed to study the influence of six kinds of stator parameters, which are classified in...
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Angelo Odetti, Marco Altosole, Gabriele Bruzzone, Massimo Caccia and Michele Viviani
This paper describes a customized thruster for Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV). The thruster is a Pump-Jet Module (PJM), which has been expressly designed, modeled, constructed, and tested for small-/medium-sized ASVs that perform environmental monitor...
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Youssef El Halal, Crístofer H. Marques, Luiz A. O. Rocha, Liércio A. Isoldi, Rafael de L. Lemos, Cristiano Fragassa and Elizaldo D. dos Santos
In the present work it is performed a numerical study for simulation of turbulent air and water flows in a nozzle based on the Coanda effect named H.O.M.E.R. (High-Speed Orienting Momentum with Enhanced Reversibility). The main purposes of this work are ...
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