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- Title
Validation of a Flow Channel to Investigate Velocity Profiles of Friction-Reducing Ship Coatings.
- Authors
Weisheit, J.; Schneider, V. E.; Serr, J. M.; Hagemeister, N.; Oeffner, J.
- Abstract
Reducing friction with specialised hull coatings or air lubrication technologies has a potential reducing energy consumption and emissions in shipping. The EU project AIRCOAT combines both by developing a passive air lubrication technology inspired by nature that is implemented on a self-adhesive foil system. Besides validating the friction reduction it is of high interest to understand the underlying mechanism that causes the reduction. Therefore, a flow channel was designed, that creates a stationary turbulent flow within a square duct allowing for non-invasive measurements by laser doppler velocimetry. The high spatial resolution of the laser device makes recording velocity profiles within the boundary layer down to the viscous sublayer possible. Determination of the wall shear stress τ enables direct comparison of different friction reduction experiments. In this paper we validate the methodology by determining the velocity profile of the flat channel wall (without coatings). We further use the results to validate a CFD model in created in OpenFOAM. We find that velocities along the longitudinal axis are generally in good agreement between numerical and experimental investigations.
- Subjects
CHANNEL flow; ENERGY consumption of ships; LASER Doppler velocimetry; BOUNDARY layer (Aerodynamics); VELOCITY; FLOW visualization
- Publication
TransNav: International Journal on Marine Navigation & Safety of Sea Transportation, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 1, p225
- ISSN
2083-6473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12716/1001.15.01.24