Pentamaran,a vessel with five hulls,can be an alternative for high-speed vessels due to its advantages,for instance,its excellent stability and seakeeping performance and broader deck space than an equivalent monohull...Pentamaran,a vessel with five hulls,can be an alternative for high-speed vessels due to its advantages,for instance,its excellent stability and seakeeping performance and broader deck space than an equivalent monohull with the same displacement.The destructive interference between the system of waves produced by the vessel’s hulls might benefit the reduction of power consumption.This study investigated a Wigley hull form pentamaran model with five asymmetric and symmetric hull config-urations and three variations of hull separation.The ship model was towed in conditions of fixed towing and calm water with Froude numbers(Fr)ranging from 0.55 to 1.00.A resistance analysis had been carried out to ensure proper comparison between the asymmetric and symmetric hull configurations.Results showed that total resistance coefficient of the asymmetries created different properties from the symmetries,that is,symmetries produced steadier trends than asymmetries.The hull separation variation caused a slight alteration in the total resistant coefficient(in magnitude)under the same configuration.Although not a single configuration outperformed the others in the entire range of Fr,three configurations were noteworthy as optimum models based on their Fr range.Moreover,a configuration of asymmetric hull with S/L=0.22 could generate a constant destructive interference throughout the investigated Fr range.展开更多
A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves th...A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution on a single grid and avoids solving Riemann problems at the cell interfaces using ghost staggered cells.A subtraction technique is used on the conservative variables with the support of a known steady state in order to manifest the well-balanced property of the scheme.The divergence-free constraint of themagnetic field is satisfied after applying the constrained transport method(CTM)for unstaggered central schemes at the end of each time-step by correcting the components of the magnetic field.The robustness of the proposed scheme is verified on a list of numerical test cases from the literature.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Hibah Q1Q2:NKB-0329/UN2.R3.1/HKp.05.00/2019
文摘Pentamaran,a vessel with five hulls,can be an alternative for high-speed vessels due to its advantages,for instance,its excellent stability and seakeeping performance and broader deck space than an equivalent monohull with the same displacement.The destructive interference between the system of waves produced by the vessel’s hulls might benefit the reduction of power consumption.This study investigated a Wigley hull form pentamaran model with five asymmetric and symmetric hull config-urations and three variations of hull separation.The ship model was towed in conditions of fixed towing and calm water with Froude numbers(Fr)ranging from 0.55 to 1.00.A resistance analysis had been carried out to ensure proper comparison between the asymmetric and symmetric hull configurations.Results showed that total resistance coefficient of the asymmetries created different properties from the symmetries,that is,symmetries produced steadier trends than asymmetries.The hull separation variation caused a slight alteration in the total resistant coefficient(in magnitude)under the same configuration.Although not a single configuration outperformed the others in the entire range of Fr,three configurations were noteworthy as optimum models based on their Fr range.Moreover,a configuration of asymmetric hull with S/L=0.22 could generate a constant destructive interference throughout the investigated Fr range.
基金the National Council for Scientific Research of Lebanon(CNRS-L)for granting a doctoral fellowship to Farah Kanbarfunding by theQualification Programof the Julius Maximilians University Wurzburg.
文摘A well-balanced second order finite volume central scheme for the magnetohydrodynamic(MHD)equations with gravitational source term is developed in this paper.The scheme is an unstaggered central scheme that evolves the numerical solution on a single grid and avoids solving Riemann problems at the cell interfaces using ghost staggered cells.A subtraction technique is used on the conservative variables with the support of a known steady state in order to manifest the well-balanced property of the scheme.The divergence-free constraint of themagnetic field is satisfied after applying the constrained transport method(CTM)for unstaggered central schemes at the end of each time-step by correcting the components of the magnetic field.The robustness of the proposed scheme is verified on a list of numerical test cases from the literature.
