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Ship Balance: Spoiler Effects Study

This dissertation discusses experimental and numerical modeling of the effect of hull-mounted spoilers on ship balance. Spoilers consisting of sections arranged port and starboard were studied with air or exhaust gas injection behind the spoiler. Computational fluid dynamics simulations using a Navier-Stokes solver modeled the two-phase flow and bubble formation. Experiments validated the numerical simulations and investigated parameters like spoiler inclination angle, ship floor angle, and injected air position. The spoiler inclination angle had the greatest effect on ship moment, with 90-degree inclination producing the highest moments. Changing spoiler parameters produced different bubble shapes and hydrodynamic forces to control ship motion and balance.

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Ship Balance: Spoiler Effects Study

This dissertation discusses experimental and numerical modeling of the effect of hull-mounted spoilers on ship balance. Spoilers consisting of sections arranged port and starboard were studied with air or exhaust gas injection behind the spoiler. Computational fluid dynamics simulations using a Navier-Stokes solver modeled the two-phase flow and bubble formation. Experiments validated the numerical simulations and investigated parameters like spoiler inclination angle, ship floor angle, and injected air position. The spoiler inclination angle had the greatest effect on ship moment, with 90-degree inclination producing the highest moments. Changing spoiler parameters produced different bubble shapes and hydrodynamic forces to control ship motion and balance.

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Mansoura University

Faculty of Engineering Dissertation abstract


Mechanical Power Eng. Dept.
Dep.: Mechanical Power Engineering Collage: Faculty of Engineering
Date: 2009
Degree: M.Sc. Author: Emad Mohammed Saad El-Said
Title:
Experimental and Numerical Study of Spoiler Effect on Ship Balance

This thesis discusses the effect of hull-mounted cavitating spoilers system on ship balance. Three-
dimensional flow field around spoiler was simulated experimentally and computationally with
injection of air or exhaust gas behind spoiler. The bow spoilers consist of an even number of
sections arranged port and starboard forward of the center of mass of the ship. The stern spoilers
consist of an even number of sections arranged port and starboard attached to the ship transom or
transom plate. Injecting exhaust gas stabilizes cavities behind spoilers. The forces and moments
acting on the ship bottom depend on spoilers inclination, rise of ship floor and air injection
positions. The two-phase flow field around a ship spoiler with the free surface simulation in
Piecewise Linear Interface Construction method is modeled numerically using a three-dimensional
Navier-Stokes code. The governing equations are discretized on a structured grid using an Upwind
Difference scheme. For different conditions, the bubbles shape, the three-dimensional flow field
around the spoiler body and the pressure variation on the wake of the spoiler body are computed.

Furthermore, the spoiler system was applied experimentally to understand the parameters
affecting the flow field and bubble formation around ship spoiler and their influences on the
hydrodynamic forces which acting on the spoiler body. These parameters are the spoiler
inclination angle, ship floor angle and injected air position. The images of bubble formation and
flow filed variation are recorded with scientific video camera and compared with the computed
flow field at different conditions and time sequence.
The experimental results are compared with the numerical ones at different conditions and
time sequence. This comparison display a good agreement between the experimental and
numerical simulation of bubble formation in the cases of spoiler with 60° and 90° inclination
angles except the computational bubble shape has small dissimilarity and not flatted at bubble tail,
and the computational bubble shape has slowly splitting and not attached to ship body in the case
of spoiler with 30° inclination angle. This may be contributed to the laminar flow computation
without including turbulence effects. The spoiler inclination angle had clear effect on the moment
value around the spoiler fixation line. The effect of spoiler inclination angle θ has the more
prominent effect on ship balance than the other two parameters of floor angle and injection
position. The high moment values were produced in case of 90° spoiler inclination angle and the
small values were produced in case of 30° after 1 second. Therefore, changing spoiler inclination
angle, ship floor angle and position relative to injection holes produces different bubble shapes
and consequently different forces are introduced to control the roll, pitch motion and speed of the
ship leading to ship balance.

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