Propeller Performance Prediction in an Artificially Generated Wake Field Using RANSE
Sep 30, 2019
Marine propellers usually operate behind a ship and are subject to a non-uniform inflow field due to the ship’s boundary layer and wake system. This ...
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Improving an Already Optimized Ship by Making its Stern Asymmetric
May 14, 2018
A container ship with a large area propeller is optimized for minimal power and maximum quality of the inflow to the propeller. Both object ...
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Hydrodynamic working principles of Energy Saving Devices in ship propulsion systems
Jun 22, 2017
Throughout the years, many types of Energy Saving Devices (ESDs) have been introduced to the naval industry, each claiming to achieve several ...
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Green retrofitting through optimisation of hull-propulsion interaction - GRIP
Apr 18, 2016
In the FP7 project GRIP, partners have extensively studied Energy Saving Devices which improve the propulsive efficiency of ships. This paper gives ...
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Computational Study On Power Reduction By A Pre-Duct For A Bulk Carrier
Dec 2, 2015
This paper presents computational results of the flow around the Japanese Bulk Carrier (JBC). The overall agreement with the experiments for all ...
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The Potsdam propeller test case in oblique flow: prediction of cavitation patterns and pressure pulses
Jun 4, 2015
We report computations performed as part of the Second International Workshop on Cavitating Propeller Performance, using the Potsdam Propeller Test ...
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The Design and Numerical Demonstration of a New Energy Saving Device
Sep 2, 2013
The present paper presents results from the ongoing European Project GRIP. This paper discusses the important steps that have been taken in the ...
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ReFRESCO plays major role in understanding and designing Energy Saving Devices
Aug 30, 2013
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Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), new insights can be obtained into the working principles of Energy Saving Devices (ESDs), which all serve ...
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The influence of the wake scale effect on the prediction of hull pressures due to cavitating propellers
Jun 15, 2011
In this paper, it is concluded that the wake scale effect may largely explain the model to full scale correlation error on the blade rate hull ...