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    This document discusses pilot studies using the OpenFOAM software for ship hydrodynamics simulations. Three tasks are described: [1] implementing and validating a turbulence model for a body of revolution, [2] developing a rotating reference frame solver and validating it for a marine propeller, and [3] evaluating the free-surface capability for a surface ship simulation. Initial results show OpenFOAM has reasonable usability and programmability, though commercial codes are more robust and efficient. Overall, OpenFOAM shows promise as an open-source CFD tool for ship hydrodynamics applications.

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    This document discusses pilot studies using the OpenFOAM software for ship hydrodynamics simulations. Three tasks are described: [1] implementing and validating a turbulence model for a body of revolution, [2] developing a rotating reference frame solver and validating it for a marine propeller, and [3] evaluating the free-surface capability for a surface ship simulation. Initial results show OpenFOAM has reasonable usability and programmability, though commercial codes are more robust and efficient. Overall, OpenFOAM shows promise as an open-source CFD tool for ship hydrodynamics applications.

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    This document discusses pilot studies using the OpenFOAM software for ship hydrodynamics simulations. Three tasks are described: [1] implementing and validating a turbulence model for a body of revolution, [2] developing a rotating reference frame solver and validating it for a marine propeller, and [3] evaluating the free-surface capability for a surface ship simulation. Initial results show OpenFOAM has reasonable usability and programmability, though commercial codes are more robust and efficient. Overall, OpenFOAM shows promise as an open-source CFD tool for ship hydrodynamics applications.

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    Evaluation of OpenFOAM for

    Ship Hydrodynamics

    Sung-Eun Kim
    CFD Group, NSWCCD, U.S.A.

    June 8, 2007
    Outline
    • Motivation
    • Pilot Studies Using OpenFOAM
    • Summary & Conclusions

    2
    Motivation
    • Ideal framework for in-house CFD capability
    development
    • Collaboration and knowledge sharing
    • Rapid prototyping and technology transfer
    • Hands-on learning in modern software
    engineering applied to CFD

    3
    Outline
    • Motivation
    • Pilot Studies Using OpenFOAM
    • Summary & Conclusions

    4
    Pilot Studies - Objectives
    • Usability
    ƒ Learning curve
    ƒ User-friendliness
    • Programmability
    ƒ Impact of language (C++) language barrier
    ƒ Tasks for different levels of programming skills
    • Extensibility – code architecture & design
    ƒ Solver applications
    ƒ Classes and libraries
    • Solver performance – benchmarking against
    commercial and in-house codes
    ƒ Speed
    ƒ Accuracy
    ƒ Robustness

    5
    Pilot Studies Using OpenFOAM
    Tasks
    1. Implementation of a Wilcox’ 1998 k-ω turbulence
    model
    ƒ A new derived class with runtime selection
    ƒ Wall boundary conditions for k and ω (2-layer wall functions)
    ƒ User-interface for model constants
    ƒ Validation for a body of revolution at incidence
    2. RANS solver in a rotating frame of reference
    1. Source terms
    2. Transformation of boundary conditions in rotating coordinates
    3. Validation for an open-water propeller

    6
    Pilot Development Projects

    3. Evaluation of free-surface capability “rasInterFoam”


    ƒ “rasInterFoam” Based on VOF with URANS
    ƒ The computation with a surface ship is underway.
    4. Force/moment monitoring and reporting
    ƒ “forceMoment” has been written and validated

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    Task1 1 - Validation with a BOR
    • Body of revolution
    ƒ ReL = 11.7 x 106, L/D = 7.3
    • Lift and moment measured for -30° < α < 30°
    ƒ Earlier RANS computations
    • Rhee and Sung (2004)
    • Wilson et al. (2004)
    ƒ 1.3M-cell structured mesh – the same mesh as the one
    used with FLUENT
    • Y+ < 0.7 at wall-adjacent cells
    • Minimum 15 grid points in BL
    ƒ QUICK scheme was used for for convection discretization.

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    BOR - Pressure Distribution (ParaFOAM)

    9
    BOR – Pathlines (FLUENT)

    10
    BOR - Normal Force Coefficient
    vs. Angle of Attack

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    BOR -Normal Force Coeff.
    at α = 18°

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    BOR - Moment Coefficient
    vs. Angle of Attack

    13
    Task 2 – Validation for a Marine
    Propeller
    • Computational mesh
    ƒ 450K-cell tet. mesh
    ƒ Coarse near-wall (wall function) mesh
    • FLUENT runs are complete with realizable k-ε and
    Wilcox’ k-ω model
    • Solved in non-inertial (rotating) frame of reference
    • OpenFOAM computations are in progress
    ƒ Run into convergence difficulty
    • Possibly due to strong body-force terms
    ƒ The solver (sransFoam) and the boundary/initial conditions

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    Task 3 – rasInterFoam Validation
    A Surface Ship at Fr = 0.28

    • Computational mesh
    ƒ 1.8M-cell structured mesh
    • FLUENT has been run on the
    same case.
    ƒ VOF with modified HRIC
    • OpenFOAM computations
    ƒ Mesh translation and problem-
    setup completed
    ƒ The computation in progress

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    Conclusions
    • Usability
    ƒ User-friendliness – satisfactory
    • Programmability
    ƒ A wide range of development (coding) tasks can be
    accomplished without deep knowledge in C++
    ƒ Learning curve – fairly reasonable with the precompiled solver
    applications
    ƒ C++ knowledge is obviously a great plus and opens up many
    possibilities.
    ƒ Greatly aided by “learn-by-examples”
    • Extensibility
    ƒ Great!
    • Solver performance
    ƒ Slightly less robust and less efficient than commercial codes
    ƒ Comparable accuracy
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