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Zhengwei Wang, Haitao Gu, Jichao Lang and Lin Xing
This study verifies the effects of deployment parameters on the safe separation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and mission payloads. The initial separation phase is meticulously modeled based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations em...
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Muhammad Sulman, Simone Mancini and Rasul Niazmand Bilandi
Incorporating steps into a hull reduces the wetted surface, promoting improved hydrodynamic lift and reduced resistance at high speeds, provided that the step is designed appropriately. Traditional hydrodynamics studies rely on scaled model testing in to...
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Yanlin Zou, Dakui Feng, Weihua Deng, Jun Yang and Hang Zhang
Waterjet?hull interaction is the hot point and research focus in the research of waterjet-propelled crafts. This paper presents numerical studies on the interaction between a waterjet system and a catamaran. Numerical simulations of both bare hull and se...
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Wenping Luo, Weiqin Liu, Meng Yang, Shuo Chen, Xuemin Song and Weiguo Wu
Operating Offshore Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (OF-VAWT) have the potential to perform well in the deep-sea area. Some researchers gave performance prediction by developing simplified computing models. However, these models have imperfections in...
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Jun Yang, Dakui Feng, Liwei Liu, Xianzhou Wang and Chaobang Yao
This study presents a numerical research on the open-water performance of a pumpjet propulsor at different scales. Simulations were performed by an in-house viscous CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamic) code. The Reynolds-averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS) method...
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Haodong Shang, Chengsheng Zhan and Zuyuan Liu
The typical maneuvering of a ship can reflect its maneuvering characteristics, which are closely related to the safety and economy of its navigation. The accurate prediction of a ship?s maneuvering characteristics is essential for its preliminary design....
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Changqing Jiang, Ould el Moctar and Thomas E. Schellin
The hydrodynamic damping of a buoy stationed with three different mooring configurations was estimated using a Navier-Stokes (NS) equations solver coupled with a dynamic mooring model. The mooring configurations comprised a catenary system, a catenary sy...
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Yu Dai, Cong Xue and Qiao Su
The capability of path tracking largely determines the operational efficiency of deep-sea mining vehicles. In this paper, the relationships of vehicle?sediment mechanical interaction were obtained by sinkage and shear tests. Then, an overset grid method ...
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Zhen Ren, Jianhua Wang and Decheng Wan
Planar motion mechanism (PMM) tests provide a means of obtaining the hydrodynamic derivatives needed to assess ship maneuverability properties. In this paper, the self-developed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solver based on the open source code platf...
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