Hull form design of underwater vehicle applying CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Author

Inoue, Tomoya ; Suzuki, Hiroyoshi ; Kitamoto, Risa ; Watanabe, Yoshitaka ; Yoshida, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Sci. & Technol.), Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

24-27 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

CFD is recognized as a possible advanced tool to understand the performance of the underwater vehicle such as a hull resistance, a thrust force, motion in waves and so on. Focusing on the hull resistance, we conducted the investigation of the water resistance of the AUV PICASSO utilizing CFD and also conducting experiments to confirm the CFD simulations. After that, designing the hull form within the limitation of equipment arrangement to improve the hull resistance was conducted utilizing the CFD. And the experiment was conducted to confirm.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; design engineering; flow simulation; mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; robot dynamics; underwater vehicles; CFD simulation; Picasso AUV; autonomous underwater vehicle; computational fluid dynamics; hull form design; hull resistance; thrust force; underwater vehicle; wave motion; Accuracy; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Numerical models; Performance evaluation; Resistance; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2010 IEEE - Sydney

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5221-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5222-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANSSYD.2010.5603875

Filename

5603875