URANS simulations of ship motion responses in long-crest irregular waves

作     者：沈志荣 叶海轩 万德成 SHEN Zhi-rong;YE Hai-xuan;WAN De-cheng

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering School of Naval Architecture Ocean and Civil EngineeringShanghai Jiao Tong University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Hydrodynamics》 (水动力学研究与进展B辑（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第26卷第3期

页      面：436-446页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0824[工学-船舶与海洋工程] 0701[理学-数学] 082401[工学-船舶与海洋结构物设计制造] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51379125,11272120) the National Key Basic Research Development Program of China(973Program,Grant No.2013CB036103) the High Technology of Marine Research Project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China 

主　　题：irregular waves white noise spectrum unsteady incompressible Reynolds-Average Navier-Stokes(URANS) equations ship motion response naoe-FOAM-SJTU solver OpenFOAM 

摘      要：In this paper, numerical prediction of ship motion responses in long-crest irregular waves by the URANS-VOF method is presented. A white noise spectrum is applied to generate the incoming waves to evaluate the motion responses. The procedure can replace a decade of simulations in regular wave with one single run to obtain a complete curve of linear motion response, considerably reducing computation time. A correction procedure is employed to adjust the wave generation signal based on the wave spectrum and achieves fairly better results in the wave tank. Three ship models with five wave conditions are introduced to validate the method. The computations in this paper are completed by using the solver naoe-FOAM-SJTU, a solver developed for ship and ocean engineering based on the open source code OpenFOAM. The computational motion responses by the irregular wave procedure are compared with the results by regular wave, experiments and strip theory. Transfer functions by irregular wave closely agree with the data obtained in the regular waves, showing negligible difference. The comparison between computational results and experiments also show good agreements. The results better predicted by CFD method than strip theories indicate that this method can compensate for the inaccuracy of the strip theories. The results confirm that the irregular wave procedure is a promising method for the accurate prediction of motion responses with less accuracy loss and higher efficiency compared with the regular wave procedure.