A Microcomputer-Based Method for Predicting Viscous Flow about a Ship Hull.

Abstract

A microcomputer-based computational method has been devised for numerically simulating viscous flow past an arbitrary ship hull. The method uses (a) thin-ship theory to compute hull-surface velocities and (b) a three-dimensional boundary-layer program which embodies the Wilcox-Rubesin two-equation turbulence model to compute boundary-layer development. The method makes provision for including displacement effects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123285

Entities

People

  • David C. Wilcox

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Froude Number
  • Geometry
  • Layers
  • Ship Hulls
  • Three Dimensional
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Viscous Flow

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Marine Hydrodynamics