简介:Sloshingphenomenonintheliquidcargocarriershascaughttheattentionofresearchersastheinteractionbetweenthesloshingwavesandstructureisoneofthekeypointanddifficultyinthestudyofsloshing.Inthispaper,wecapturedthefreesurfacewithavolumeoffluid(VOF)methodandthencalculatedthemotionsandresponsesofthestructurebyadoptingtheReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)equationsforthewholefluiddomain.Withtheuseofuserdefinedfunctions(UDF)inFluent,theinteractionbetweenfluidandstructurewasthensimulated.Asareasonablesimplification,theauthorsstudiedtheresponseofasinglecantileverinatankundersloshingloads;Furtherstudyshouldpaymoreattentiontothemechanismsofinteractionbetweensloshingwavesandelasticstructures.
简介:TheReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)method,alongwiththeFluentsoftwarepackage,wasusedtostudythesteadyandunsteadyinteractionofpropellersandrudderswithadditionalthrustfins.Theslidingmeshmodelwasemployedtosimulateunsteadyinteractionsbetweentheblades,therudderandthethrustfins.Basedonthenumericalresults,thepressuredistributiononthepropellerandtheefficiencyofthefinswerecalculatedasafunctionoftheattackangle.TheRANSresultswerecomparedwithresultscalculatedbythepotentialmethod.ItwasfoundthattheresultsforthepotentialmethodandtheRANSmethodhavegoodconsistency,buttheyyieldmaximumefficienciesforthefins,andthuscorrespondingattackangles,thatarenotidentical.