Flow around Ship Spoiler.(Dept.M)

Abstract

To control the roll, pitch motion and speed of the ship, a proposed system of spoilers is mounted at the bottom of the ship. The bow spoilers consist of an even number of sections arranged port and starboard forward of the center of mass of me ship. The stem spoilers consist of an even number of sections arranged port and starboard attached to the ship's transom or transom plate. Injecting exhaust gas stabilizes cavities behind spoilers. The forces and moments acting on the ship's bottom depend on its inclination, spoiler extensions and positions of the spoilers relative to the ship's center of mass. To improve the understanding of the parameters affecting the flow field around such spoiler, we computed the flow field with different spoiler position, and inclination angle with air flow injection. We used a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes code (CFDRC, 2000) to model the two-phase (low field around a ship spoiler with the Free Surface simulation In Piecewise Linear Interface Construction (PUC) method. The governing equations are discretized on a structured grid using an upwind difference scheme. For different conditions, we detemline the bubbles shape, the two-dimensional flowfield around the spoiler body and the pressure variation on the wake of the spoiler body. Higher spoiler inclination angle gives higher pressure difference between front and back of the spoiler. Spoiler with injection at a distance L from ship spoiler gives higher pressure difference between front and back of the spoiler than injection just beside the spoiler In spoiler with 45o inclination angle the cavity has high stability with long bubble foot shape. The bubble shape depends on the spoiler position and inclination. These parameters affect the roll, pitch and speed of the ship.