Ship floating condition in regular waves is calculated. New equations controlling any ship＇s floating condition are proposed by use of the vector operation. This form is a nonlinear optimization problem which can be ...Ship floating condition in regular waves is calculated. New equations controlling any ship＇s floating condition are proposed by use of the vector operation. This form is a nonlinear optimization problem which can be solved using the penalty function method with constant coefficients. And the solving process is accelerated by dichotomy. During the solving process, the ship＇s displacement and buoyant centre have been calculated by the integration of the ship surface according to the waterline. The ship surface is described using an accumulative chord length theory in order to determine the displacement, the buoyancy center and the waterline. The draught forming the waterline at each station can be found out by calculating the intersection of the ship surface and the wave surface. The results of an example indicate that this method is exact and efficient. It can calculate the ship floating condition in regular waves as well as simplify the calculation and improve the computational efficiency and the precision of results.展开更多
A two-dimensional numerical Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)model is established on the basis of viscous CFD theory to investigate the motion response and power absorption performance of a bottom-hinged flap-type wav...A two-dimensional numerical Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)model is established on the basis of viscous CFD theory to investigate the motion response and power absorption performance of a bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converter(WEC)under regular wave conditions.The convergence study of mesh size and time step is performed to ensure that wave height and motion response are sufficiently accurate.Wave height results reveal that the attenuation of wave height along the wave tank is less than 5%only if the suitable mesh size and time step are selected.The model proposed in this work is verified against published experimental and numerical models.The effects of mechanical damping,wave height,wave frequency,and water depth on the motion response,power generation,and energy conversion efficiency of the flap-type WEC are investigated.The selection of the appropriate mechanical damping of the WEC is crucial for the optimal extraction of wave power.The optimal mechanical damping can be readily predicted by using potential flow theory.It can then be verified by applying CFD numerical results.In addition,the motion response and the energy conversion efficiency of the WEC decrease as the incident wave height increases because the strengthened nonlinear effect of waves intensifies energy loss.Moreover,the energy conversion efficiency of theWEC decreases with increasing water depth and remains constant as the water depth reaches a critical value.Therefore,the selection of the optimal parameters during the design process is necessary to ensure that the WEC exhibits the maximum energy conversion efficiency.展开更多
Owing to the large amplitude and nonlinearity of extreme sea waves,sailing ships exhibit obvious large-amplitude motion and green water.For a tumblehome vessel,a low-tumblehome freeboard and wave-piercing bow make gre...Owing to the large amplitude and nonlinearity of extreme sea waves,sailing ships exhibit obvious large-amplitude motion and green water.For a tumblehome vessel,a low-tumblehome freeboard and wave-piercing bow make green water more likely.To study the green water of a wave-facing sailing tumblehome vessel in strong nonlinear regular waves,the computational fluid dynamics software STAR-CCM+was used.The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes method was used for the numerical simulation,and the k-epsilon model was adopted to deal with viscous turbulence.The volume of the fluid method was used to capture the free surface,and overset grids were utilized to simulate the large-amplitude ship motion.This study delves into the influence of wave height on the ship motion response and a tumblehome vessel green water under a large wave steepness(0.033≤H/λ≤0.067)at Fr=0.22.In addition,the dynamic process of green water and the“wave run-up”phenomenon were evaluated.The results suggest that when the wavelength is equal to the ship length and the wave steepness increases to 0.056,the increase in the water height on the deck is obvious.However,the wave height had little effect on the green water duration.The wave steepness and“backwater”have a great impact on the value and number of the peak of the water height on the deck.When the wave steepness exceeded 0.056,the water climbed up,and the plunging-type water body was formed at the top of the wave baffle,resulting in a large water area on the deck.展开更多
为研究小水线面双体船(small water-plane area twin hull,SWATH)的耐波性,在拖曳水池里开展了SWATH顶浪规则波中纵向运动模型试验,研究了航速和稳定鳍纵向位置变化对船体纵向运动性能的影响,以及波高变化对船体运动响应的非线性影响。...为研究小水线面双体船(small water-plane area twin hull,SWATH)的耐波性,在拖曳水池里开展了SWATH顶浪规则波中纵向运动模型试验,研究了航速和稳定鳍纵向位置变化对船体纵向运动性能的影响,以及波高变化对船体运动响应的非线性影响。试验结果表明:不同航速下,船体的垂荡传递函数和纵摇传递函数均随着波长变化呈现出双极值;不同航速时的垂荡传递函数的极值大小变化较小。稳定鳍纵向位置移动3.5%设计水线长时,对模型的运动响应影响不明显。随着波高增加,模型运动响应的非线性特征突出表现在共振区附近,在低速时更为显著。展开更多
基金financially supported by the Science Fund for Creative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51321065)the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University(Grant No.1104)
文摘Ship floating condition in regular waves is calculated. New equations controlling any ship＇s floating condition are proposed by use of the vector operation. This form is a nonlinear optimization problem which can be solved using the penalty function method with constant coefficients. And the solving process is accelerated by dichotomy. During the solving process, the ship＇s displacement and buoyant centre have been calculated by the integration of the ship surface according to the waterline. The ship surface is described using an accumulative chord length theory in order to determine the displacement, the buoyancy center and the waterline. The draught forming the waterline at each station can be found out by calculating the intersection of the ship surface and the wave surface. The results of an example indicate that this method is exact and efficient. It can calculate the ship floating condition in regular waves as well as simplify the calculation and improve the computational efficiency and the precision of results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51409066,51761135013)the High Technology Ship Scientific Research Project from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China–Floating Security Platform Project(the second stage,201622)the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central University (HEUCFJ180104,HEUCFP1809)
文摘A two-dimensional numerical Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD)model is established on the basis of viscous CFD theory to investigate the motion response and power absorption performance of a bottom-hinged flap-type wave energy converter(WEC)under regular wave conditions.The convergence study of mesh size and time step is performed to ensure that wave height and motion response are sufficiently accurate.Wave height results reveal that the attenuation of wave height along the wave tank is less than 5%only if the suitable mesh size and time step are selected.The model proposed in this work is verified against published experimental and numerical models.The effects of mechanical damping,wave height,wave frequency,and water depth on the motion response,power generation,and energy conversion efficiency of the flap-type WEC are investigated.The selection of the appropriate mechanical damping of the WEC is crucial for the optimal extraction of wave power.The optimal mechanical damping can be readily predicted by using potential flow theory.It can then be verified by applying CFD numerical results.In addition,the motion response and the energy conversion efficiency of the WEC decrease as the incident wave height increases because the strengthened nonlinear effect of waves intensifies energy loss.Moreover,the energy conversion efficiency of theWEC decreases with increasing water depth and remains constant as the water depth reaches a critical value.Therefore,the selection of the optimal parameters during the design process is necessary to ensure that the WEC exhibits the maximum energy conversion efficiency.
基金Supported by the Heilongjiang Touyan Project of Chinaand the Frontier Science Center of the Ministry of Education for Extreme Marine Environment Wave Fields
文摘Owing to the large amplitude and nonlinearity of extreme sea waves,sailing ships exhibit obvious large-amplitude motion and green water.For a tumblehome vessel,a low-tumblehome freeboard and wave-piercing bow make green water more likely.To study the green water of a wave-facing sailing tumblehome vessel in strong nonlinear regular waves,the computational fluid dynamics software STAR-CCM+was used.The Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes method was used for the numerical simulation,and the k-epsilon model was adopted to deal with viscous turbulence.The volume of the fluid method was used to capture the free surface,and overset grids were utilized to simulate the large-amplitude ship motion.This study delves into the influence of wave height on the ship motion response and a tumblehome vessel green water under a large wave steepness(0.033≤H/λ≤0.067)at Fr=0.22.In addition,the dynamic process of green water and the“wave run-up”phenomenon were evaluated.The results suggest that when the wavelength is equal to the ship length and the wave steepness increases to 0.056,the increase in the water height on the deck is obvious.However,the wave height had little effect on the green water duration.The wave steepness and“backwater”have a great impact on the value and number of the peak of the water height on the deck.When the wave steepness exceeded 0.056,the water climbed up,and the plunging-type water body was formed at the top of the wave baffle,resulting in a large water area on the deck.
文摘为研究小水线面双体船(small water-plane area twin hull,SWATH)的耐波性,在拖曳水池里开展了SWATH顶浪规则波中纵向运动模型试验,研究了航速和稳定鳍纵向位置变化对船体纵向运动性能的影响,以及波高变化对船体运动响应的非线性影响。试验结果表明:不同航速下,船体的垂荡传递函数和纵摇传递函数均随着波长变化呈现出双极值;不同航速时的垂荡传递函数的极值大小变化较小。稳定鳍纵向位置移动3.5%设计水线长时,对模型的运动响应影响不明显。随着波高增加,模型运动响应的非线性特征突出表现在共振区附近,在低速时更为显著。
