Mechanism and performance of a hydrofoil bubble generator utilized for bubbly drag reduction ships

OCEAN ENGINEERING

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Murai, Yuichi¹  Sakamaki, Haruki¹  Kumagai, Ichiro²  Park, Hyun Jin¹  Tasaka, Yuji¹ 

[1] Hokkaido Univ, Fac Engn, Lab Flow Control, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0608628, Japan

[2] Meisei Univ, Sch Sci & Engn, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

关键词: Bubbly drag reduction;    Hydrofoil bubble generator;    Air lubrication;    Two-phase flow;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108085

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Following the success of bubbly drag reduction for marine vessels by hydrofoil bubble generators (Kumagai et al., 2015), we conducted two kinds of experiments to specify and improve its working principle. Firstly, PIV measurement was carried out to elucidate the flow structure around a hydrofoil running beneath a free surface. Froude number dependence of the anti-stall characteristics and cancellation of vertical pressure gradient above the hydrofoil were confirmed, which entrain the atmospheric air into water flow. Secondly, we mounted the hydrofoil to a model ship that runs in a 100-m-towing facility and found three different two-phase flow patterns in realizing bubble generation. Volume flow rate of generated bubbles increased with the ship speed to the power of greater than two, thus wall-occupation fraction of bubbles also increases with the ship speed. Furthermore, hydrofoil drag during bubble generation was measured and used to estimate net power-saving, having proved advantage of the hydrofoil bubble generator for long ships at high speed conditions.

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