Computational fluid dynamics-based ship energy-saving technologies: A comprehensive review

K Wang, Z Li, R Zhang, R Ma, L Huang, Z Wang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
The research on the dynamics analysis-based energy-saving technology is significant to
reduce ship energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The adoption of dynamics …

A critical review of different works on marine propellers over the last three decades

P Majumder, S Maity - Ships and Offshore Structures, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Propeller is the main energy-producing device for any marine vehicle. To make waterway
communication economical, efficient and environment friendly, improvement of ship …

Anisotropy of turbulence at the core of the tip and hub vortices shed by a marine propeller

A Posa - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Large-eddy simulation on a grid consisting of 5 billion points was utilized to study the
properties of turbulence at the core of the tip and hub vortices shed by a marine propeller …

Analysis of the wake dynamics of a propeller operating before a rudder

L Wang, C Guo, P Xu, Y Su - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the characteristics of the wake dynamics of a propeller operating before
a rudder under open water conditions. The analysis is conducted using a numerical method …

Spanwise distribution of the loads on a hydrofoil working in the wake of an upstream propeller

A Posa, R Broglia - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The spanwise distribution of the loads acting on a hydrofoil working in the wake of a
propeller is analyzed both as a function of the propeller load and the incidence of the …

[HTML][HTML] End effects in the wake of a hydrofoil working downstream of a propeller

A Posa - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Large-eddy simulations are reported on a system consisting of a marine propeller and a
downstream, semi-infinite hydrofoil, carried out on a cylindrical grid of about 3.8× 10 9 …

Tip vortices shed by a hydrofoil in the wake of a marine propeller

A Posa - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Large-eddy simulations on a grid consisting of 3.8 billion points are reported, dealing with a
system composed of a propeller and a downstream semi-infinite hydrofoil, mimicking a …

Development of the wake shed by a system composed of a propeller and a rudder at incidence

A Posa, R Broglia - International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulations are reported on a system consisting of a marine propeller
and a hydrofoil, mimicking a rudder, for four orientations of the latter, modeling maneuvering …

An improved body force method for simulation of self-propulsion AUV with ducted propeller

H Wang, X Xiang, G Xiang, C Liu, L Yang - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
The body force method (BFM) is an efficient computational method used for maneuvering
simulations of marine vehicles with ordinary propellers. In this paper, an improved BFM is …

Sixty years of research on ship rudders: effects of design choices on rudder performance

J Liu, R Hekkenberg - Ships and offshore structures, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Rudders are primary steering devices for merchant ships. The main purpose of using
rudders is to generate forces for course keeping and manoeuvring. In exceptional cases …