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Free-surface flows with an arbitrary deformation, induced by a submerged hydrofoil, are simulated numerically, considering two-fluid flows of both water and air. The computation is performed by a finite volume method using unstructured meshes and an interface capturing scheme to determine the shape of the free surface. The method uses control volumes with an arbitrary number of faces and allows cellwise local mesh refinement. The integration in space is of second order, based on midpoint rule integration and linear interpolation. The method is fully implicit and uses quadratic interpolation in time through three time levels. The linear equations are solved by conjugate gradient type solvers, and the non-linearity of equations is accounted for through Picard iterations. The solution method is of pressure-correction type and solves sequentially the linearized momentum equations, the continuity equation, the conservation equation of one species, and the equations for two turbulence quantities. Finally, a comparison is quantitatively made at the same speed between the computation and experiment in which the grid sensitivity is numerically checked.
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Abbreviations
- ρ:
-
Fluid density
- n :
-
Unit normal vector outwards
- V:
-
Control volume
- θ:
-
Angle normal to the interface
- v :
-
Fluid velocity vector
- v b :
-
Velocity of the control surface
- p :
-
Pressure
- b i :
-
Body force
- μ:
-
Dynamic viscosity of fluid
- τ ij :
-
Effective stress
- c:
-
Void fraction of liquid
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Kwag, SH. Computation of water and air flow with submerged hydrofoil by interface capturing method. KSME International Journal 14, 789–795 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03184465
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