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- Title
Multi-Domain 2.5D Method for Multiple Water Level Hydrodynamics.
- Authors
Guo, Zhiqun; Ma, Qingwei; Qin, Hongde
- Abstract
The mean water surface (interface) under the air cushion of a surface effect ship (SES) or an air cushion supported platform (ACSP) is generally lower than the outside water surface due to the overpressure of the air cushion. To precisely analyze the hydrodynamics under the air cushion, multiple water levels should be considered in numerical models. However, when using free surface Green's functions as numerical methods, the water level difference cannot be taken into account, because free surface Green's functions normally require users to set in the whole water domain a unique datum water surface that completely separates the air domain and the water domain. To overcome this difficulty, a multi-domain approach is incorporated into a 2.5D method that is based on a time domain free surface Green's function with viscous dissipation effects in this paper. In the novel multi-domain 2.5D method, the water domain is partitioned into inner and outer domains, and the interface is located in the inner domain while the outside water surface is placed in the outer domain. In each domain there exists only one unique water level, while water levels in different domains are allowed to be different. Benefited from this characteristic, the multi-domain 2.5D method is able to precisely consider the water level difference and its influence on hydrodynamics. The newly proposed multi-domain 2.5D method is employed to predict the hydrodynamics of an SES, and it is confirmed that the multi-domain 2.5D method can give better numerical results than the single-domain one for the given case.
- Subjects
GREEN'S functions; DIFFERENTIAL equations; POTENTIAL theory (Mathematics); HYDRODYNAMICS; WATER levels; GROUND-effect machines
- Publication
Water (20734441), 2018, Vol 10, Issue 2, p232
- ISSN
2073-4441
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/w10020232