Collaborative CFD Exercise for a Submarine in a Steady Turn

Paper

AuthorsToxopeus, S.L., Atsavapranee, P., Wolf, E., Daum, S., Pattenden, R., Widjaja, Zhang, J.T. and Gerber, A.G.

Conference/JournalOMAE ASME 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DateJul 3, 2012

In a collaborative CFD exercise, the Submarine Hydrodynamics Working Group (SHWG) performed calculations on the bare hull DARPA SUBOFF submarine to investigate the capability of RANS viscous-flow solvers to predict the flow field around the hull and the forces and moments for several steady turns.