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Ship-scale CFD benchmark study of a pre-swirl duct on KVLCC2

Ship-scale CFD benchmark study of a pre-swirl duct on KVLCC2
Ship-scale CFD benchmark study of a pre-swirl duct on KVLCC2
Installing an energy saving device such as a pre-swirl duct (PSD) is a major investment for a ship owner and prior to an order a reliable prediction of the energy savings is required. Currently there is no standard for how such a prediction is to be carried out, possible alternatives are both model-scale tests in towing tanks with associated scaling procedures, as well as methods based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This paper summarizes a CFD benchmark study comparing industrial state-of-the-art ship-scale CFD predictions of the power reduction through installation of a PSD, where the objective was to both obtain an indication on the reliability in this kind of prediction and to gain insight into how the computational procedure affects the results. It is a blind study, the KVLCC2, which the PSD is mounted on, has never been built and hence there is no ship-scale data available. The 10 participants conducted in total 22 different predictions of the power reduction with respect to a baseline case without PSD. The predicted power reductions are both positive and negative, on average 0.4%, with a standard deviation of 1.6%-units, when not considering two predictions based on model-scale CFD and two outliers associated with large uncertainties in the results. Among the variations present in computational procedure, two were found to significantly influence the predictions. First, a geometrically resolved propeller model applying sliding mesh interfaces is in average predicting a higher power reduction with the PSD compared to simplified propeller models. The second factor with notable influence on the power reduction prediction is the wake field prediction, which, besides numerical configuration, is affected by how hull roughness is considered.
Benchmark study, KVLCC2, Pre-swirl duct, Ship-scale CFD
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Andersson, Jennie, Shiri, Alex Abolfazl, Bensow, Rickard E, Turnock, Stephen, Hudson, Dominic and Tezdogan, Tahsin , et al. (2022) Ship-scale CFD benchmark study of a pre-swirl duct on KVLCC2. Applied Ocean Research, 123, [103134]. (doi:10.1016/j.apor.2022.103134).

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Abstract

Installing an energy saving device such as a pre-swirl duct (PSD) is a major investment for a ship owner and prior to an order a reliable prediction of the energy savings is required. Currently there is no standard for how such a prediction is to be carried out, possible alternatives are both model-scale tests in towing tanks with associated scaling procedures, as well as methods based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This paper summarizes a CFD benchmark study comparing industrial state-of-the-art ship-scale CFD predictions of the power reduction through installation of a PSD, where the objective was to both obtain an indication on the reliability in this kind of prediction and to gain insight into how the computational procedure affects the results. It is a blind study, the KVLCC2, which the PSD is mounted on, has never been built and hence there is no ship-scale data available. The 10 participants conducted in total 22 different predictions of the power reduction with respect to a baseline case without PSD. The predicted power reductions are both positive and negative, on average 0.4%, with a standard deviation of 1.6%-units, when not considering two predictions based on model-scale CFD and two outliers associated with large uncertainties in the results. Among the variations present in computational procedure, two were found to significantly influence the predictions. First, a geometrically resolved propeller model applying sliding mesh interfaces is in average predicting a higher power reduction with the PSD compared to simplified propeller models. The second factor with notable influence on the power reduction prediction is the wake field prediction, which, besides numerical configuration, is affected by how hull roughness is considered.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 March 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 March 2022
Published date: 1 June 2022
Additional Information: Funding Information: The organization of the study and the contributions by Chalmers and SSPA was supported by the Swedish Transport Administration (grant number TRV 2018/76544). The contribution by Chalmers was based on simulations performed on resources at the National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden (NSC), provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). The contribution by University of Strathclyde's were based on results obtained using the Archie-West High Performance Computer (www.archie-west.ac.uk). The contribution by ECN/CNRS was granted access to the HPC resources of IDRIS under the allocation 2021-A0092A01308 made by GENCI, France. Funding Information: The organization of the study and the contributions by Chalmers and SSPA was supported by the Swedish Transport Administration (grant number TRV 2018/76544 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors
Keywords: Benchmark study, KVLCC2, Pre-swirl duct, Ship-scale CFD

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Local EPrints ID: 457455
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457455
ISSN: 0141-1187
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ORCID for Stephen Turnock: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-0400
ORCID for Dominic Hudson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2012-6255
ORCID for Joseph Banks: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3777-8962
ORCID for Tahsin Tezdogan: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7032-3038

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Date deposited: 09 Jun 2022 16:31
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:18

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Author: Jennie Andersson
Author: Alex Abolfazl Shiri
Author: Rickard E Bensow
Author: Jin Yixing
Author: Wu Chengsheng
Author: Qiu Gengyao
Author: Ganbo Deng
Author: Patrick Queutey
Author: Yan Xing-Kaeding
Author: Peter Horn
Author: Thomas Lucke
Author: Hiroshi Kobayashi
Author: Kinihide Ohashi
Author: Nobuaki Sakamoto
Author: Yuling Gao
Author: Fan Yang
Author: Bjorn Winden
Author: Max G Meyerson
Author: Kevin J Maki
Author: Stephen Turnock ORCID iD
Author: Dominic Hudson ORCID iD
Author: Joseph Banks ORCID iD
Author: Momchil Terziev
Author: Tahsin Tezdogan ORCID iD
Author: Florian Vesting
Author: Takanori Hino
Author: Sofia Werner
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