• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.757-764
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• 2019

Depressurization occurs around underwater objects moving at high speeds. This causes cavitation nuclei to expand, resulting in cavitation. Cavitation is accompanied by an increase in noise and vibration at the site, particularly in the case of thrusters, and this has a detrimental ef ect on propulsion performance. Therefore, predicting cavitation is necessary. In this study, an analytical method for cavitation noise is developed and applied to an elliptic wing. First, computational fluid dynamics are performed to obtain information about the flow fields around the wing. Then, through the cavitation nuclei density function, number of cavitation nuclei is calculated using the initial radius of the nuclei and nuclei are randomly placed in the upstream with large pressure drop around the wing tip. Bubble dynamics are then applied to each nucleus using a Lagrangian approach for noise analysis and to determine cavitation behavior. Cavitation noise is identified as having the characteristics of broadband noise. Verification of analytical method is performed by comparing experimental results derived from the large cavitation tunnel at the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.22-29
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• 2000

The cavitation noised of high-speed propellers was experimentally studied in KRISO cavitation tunnel. In this paper, a series of cavitation noise tests were carried out for five propellers with various sections and loading distributions. From the experimental results, the noise characteristics of various cavitation pattern and the noise performance of the propellers were analyzed. There can be used for optimum design for high-speed propellers.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.23-30
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• 2001

The cavitation noise of high-speed propellers was experimentally studied using new measurement device in KRISO cavitation tunnel. A series of cavitation noise tests were carried out for 6 propellers with various sections, loading distributions, and a different area ratio. From the experimental results, the noise characteristics for various cavitation patterns and the noise performance for a series of propellers were analyzed. These can be used for full-scale prediction study of the noise and optimum design of high-speed propellers.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.60 no.1
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• pp.80-86
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• 2024

We analyzed the performance of hubless rim propellers based on the number of blades, maintaining a fixed pitch ratio and expanded area ratio, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Thrust coefficient, torque coefficient and efficiency according to the number of blades were analyzed. In addition, the pressure distribution on the discharge and suction sides of the blade was analyzed. As the advance ratio increases, the thrust coefficient decreases. The highest thrust was shown when the advance ratio was lowest. For the three, four, five and six-blades, the torque coefficient tended to decrease as the advance ratio increased. In the case of seven and eight-blades, the torque coefficient tended to increase as the advance ratio increased. The maximum efficiency was found when the advance ratio was 0.8. When the three-blade, it showed high efficiency at all advance ratios. A high pressure distribution was observed at the leading edge of the discharge blade, and a low pressure distribution was observed at the trailing edge. Applying a hubless rim-driven thruster with the three-blade can generate higher thrust and increase work efficiency.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

The present study numerically investigated the effect of the advance ratio on the wake characteristics of the marine propeller in the propeller open water test. Therefore, a wide range of the advance ratio(0.2${\kappa}-{\omega}$SST Model are considered. The three-dimensional vortical structures of tip vortices are visualized by the swirl strength, resulting in fast decay of the tip vortices with increasing the advance ratio. Furthermore, to better understanding of the wake evolution, the contraction ratio of the slip stream for different advance ratios is extracted from the velocity fields. Consequently, the slip stream contraction ratio decreases with increasing the advance ratio and successively the difference of the slip stream contraction ratio between J=0.2 and J=0.8 is about 0.1R.