简介:Smoothedparticlehydrodynamics(SPH)isaLagrangianmeshlessparticlemethod.Itisoneofthebestmethodforsimulatingviolentfreesurfaceflowsinfluidsandsolvinglargefluiddeformations.Dambreakingisatypicalexampleoftheseproblems.ThebasisofSPHwasreviewed,includingsometechniquesforgoverningequationresolution,suchasthesteppingmethodandtheboundaryhandlingmethod.Thennumericalresultsofadambreakingsimulationwerediscussed,andthebenefitsofconceptslikeartificialviscosityandpositioncorrectionwereanalyzedindetail.Whencomparedwithdambreakingsimulatedbythevolumeoffluid(VOF)method,thewaveprofilegeneratedbySPHhadgoodagreement,butthepressurehadonlyreasonableagreement.Improvingpressureresultsisclearlyanimportantnextstepforresearch.
简介:TheReynolds-averagedNavier-Stokes(RANS)method,alongwiththeFluentsoftwarepackage,wasusedtostudythesteadyandunsteadyinteractionofpropellersandrudderswithadditionalthrustfins.Theslidingmeshmodelwasemployedtosimulateunsteadyinteractionsbetweentheblades,therudderandthethrustfins.Basedonthenumericalresults,thepressuredistributiononthepropellerandtheefficiencyofthefinswerecalculatedasafunctionoftheattackangle.TheRANSresultswerecomparedwithresultscalculatedbythepotentialmethod.ItwasfoundthattheresultsforthepotentialmethodandtheRANSmethodhavegoodconsistency,buttheyyieldmaximumefficienciesforthefins,andthuscorrespondingattackangles,thatarenotidentical.