Recent developments on the water entry impact of wedges and projectiles

AZ Chaudhry, Y Shi, G Pan - Ships and Offshore Structures, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In the scientific community, water entry impact study has been remained focus by various
authors across the globe in past decades. This paper reviews different analytical …

Micro/bubble drag reduction focused on new applications

A García-Magariño, P Lopez-Gavilan, S Sor… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bubble drag reduction has been shown to be a promising technique for reducing the drag in
ships, thus reducing the emission of pollutants and allowing the compliance with the new …

LES investigation into the cavity shedding dynamics and cavitation–vortex interaction around a surface-piercing hydrofoil

Y Zhi, R Huang, R Qiu, Y Wang, C Huang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recent experiments have found that there is unstable vaporous cavitation around a surface-
piercing hydrofoil at high Froude numbers and small yaw angles, and it would promote …

Ventilated cavity dynamics of an axisymmetric body under the influence of a structure

D Zhang, J Zhang, T Sun, Y Jiang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The presence of structures in the ocean complicates the navigation of an underwater
axisymmetric body. This effect involves special environmental fluid dynamics, such as …

LES of tip-leakage cavitating flow with special emphasis on different tip clearance sizes by a new Euler-Lagrangian cavitation model

M Xu, H Cheng, B Ji, X Peng - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present paper, a new cavitation model proposed by Cheng et al.(2020a) combined
with LES is utilized to simulate the tip-leakage cavitating flow around a NACA0009 hydrofoil …

LES investigation of the influence of cavitation on flow patterns in a confined tip-leakage flow

H Cheng, X Long, B Ji, X Peng, M Farhat - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
In the present paper, Large Eddy Simulations combined with the Zwart-Gerber-Belamri
cavitation model are conducted to study the flow characteristics in a tip-leakage flow. A …

[HTML][HTML] Research on ventilation and supercavitation mechanism of high-speed surface-piercing hydrofoil

Y Wang, C Huang, T Du, R Huang, Y Zhi, Y Wang… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Flow structures and hydrodynamic performance of high-speed surface-piercing hydrofoils
were studied by numerical simulation, with an emphasis on the interaction mechanism …

Numerical study of the thermodynamics and supercavitating flow around an underwater high-speed projectile using a fully compressible multiphase flow model

VT Nguyen, WG Park - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the thermodynamic behavior and supercavitating flow around projectiles of
high-subsonic to supersonic speeds were numerically analyzed using a fully compressible …

Unsteady cavitation around submerged and water-exit projectiles under the effect of the free surface: A numerical study

VT Nguyen, TH Phan, TN Duy, WG Park - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The growth, shedding, and collapse regime of cavitation under the effect of a free surface is
complicated by projectiles moving near and across the free surface and three phases (air …

Experimental and numerical study of free surface effect on the ventilated cavitating flow around a surface vehicle model

AA Moltani, M PasandidehFard, MR Erfanian - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current study, the ventilated cavitating flow for a model near the free surface is
investigated experimentally and numerically. The experiments are performed in a towing …