{"title":"Influence of Gap Flow on the Cavitating Response of a Rectangular Hydrofoil","authors":"C. Harwood, A. Ducoin, Y. L. Young","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-006","url":null,"abstract":"A commercial URANS solver is used to analyze the cavitating flow field around a rectangular, cantilevered hydrofoil with a small gap between the free end and the wall of a cavitation tunnel. A transport-equation based cavitation model is used along with an artificial compressibility correction for the turbulent eddy viscosity. The objective is to improve the understanding of the unsteady interactions between the 3-D gap flow, sheet-cloud cavitation, gap cavitation, tip vortices, and their dependence on the cavitation index. It is found that the numerically-predicted wetted pressure distributions, cavitation patterns, and load coefficients agree well with experimental measurements and observations. The results suggest that the presence of cavitation significantly modifies the boundary layer flow near the tip and the tunnel wall, disrupts the formation of the tip-leakage vortex, and enhances other secondary flows. Although the numerical model was able to simulate the general dynamics of sheet and gap cavitation, a more refined mesh and higher fidelity turbulence models (e.g. DES or LES) are needed to resolve the fine vortex structures in the tip, tip vortex cavitation, and the highly transient features of 3-D cloud cavitation.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115751168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Sada, Tomohiro Tanaka, F. Kikkawa, Yoshimasa Kachu, David W. Hawkins
{"title":"PTFE Partial Arc Bearing for Large Water-lubricated Tail-shafts","authors":"H. Sada, Tomohiro Tanaka, F. Kikkawa, Yoshimasa Kachu, David W. Hawkins","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-003","url":null,"abstract":"PTFE (Poly-Tetra-Fluoro-Ethylene) is a well-known bearing material used to provide low friction for water-lubricated shafts. Partial arc design bearings are attracting keen interest due to reduce friction, since it develops a hydrodynamic film even in water lubrication. However, the application of both PTFE material and a partial arc design is limited to small bearings, because conventional PTFE partial arc bearings are manufacture in ring form and PTFE rings have strict limitation in size. In this paper, a newly developed, PTFE partial arc bearing for large water-lubricated tail-shafts is outlined. Friction, wear and deformation properties of the new bearing are described. In addition, wear life prediction is proposed for the PTFE partial arc bearing.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127444025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presentation of Propulsion Machinery Case Stories from DNV Maritime Technical Advisory","authors":"J. H. Andersen","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-008","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of two failure investigations carried out by DNV Maritime Technical Advisory. The first case is the failure of an oil distribution shaft in the main propulsions shafting for on oil tanker. The second case is the fracture on a high speed intermediate shaft on a platform supply vessel.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134056642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Hybrid Viscous/Potential Flow Method for the Prediction of the Wetted and Cavitating Performance of Ducted Propellers","authors":"S. Kinnas, C. Jeon, Ye Tian","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analysis of the performance for various ducted propellers using a hybrid numerical method, which couples a vortex lattice method (VLM) for the analysis of propellers and a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solver for the prediction of the viscous fluid flow around the duct. The effects of viscosity on the effective wake and on the performance of the propeller blade, as well as on the predicted duct forces, are assessed. The prediction of the performance for those ducted propellers from the present method is validated against existing experimental data.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125732174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Ludlow, Adele Cutler, S. Klepper, M. V. van Schoor
{"title":"Non-Contacting Water Activated Bulkhead Seals: Improved Safety and Reduced Costs","authors":"C. Ludlow, Adele Cutler, S. Klepper, M. V. van Schoor","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-011","url":null,"abstract":"Bulkhead seals are critical safety components which stop progressive flooding between watertight compartments at the location of the shaft penetration through the bulkhead. Most bulkhead seal technology is based on a contacting approach where sealing materials are always in contact with the spinning shaft. Radial and axial shaft motion, vibration, shaft mis-alignment, bulkhead mis-alignment, seal orientation and air pressure differentials can cause these contacting bulkhead seals to pre-maturely wear or fail. This wear then leads to substantial maintenance costs if the seals are properly inspected and maintained or can lead to catastrophic failure should the seals not be properly maintained. This paper will present a new non-contacting and non-rotating bulkhead seal design that only activates in the presence of water.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127908520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Panel Method for the Hydrodynamic Performance\u0000Prediction of a Water-jet and an Inducer","authors":"S. Kinnas, Shu Chang, Alokraj Valsaraj","doi":"10.5957/pss-2012-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5957/pss-2012-004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the analyses of the hydrodynamic performance for a marine water-jet propulsor and a rocket engine turbo pump inducer by using a potential flow solver based on a low order panel method. The steady and unsteady fully-wetted and cavitating simulations for the water-jet rotor only problem are investigated and the steady fully-wetted simulation for the inducer is studied in this paper. The convergence studies of rotor averaged cavitating circulation distributions with number of panels on the blade and with different time step sizes are presented in the water-jet case. Finally, the predictions of the hydrodynamic performance for the water-jet pump and the inducer from the present method are validated against existing experimental data or numerical results from RANS solvers.","PeriodicalId":213253,"journal":{"name":"Day 1 Tue, September 11, 2012","volume":"317 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122223077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}