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Based on a volume of fluid two-phase model imbedded in the general computational fluid dynamics code FLUENT6.3.26, the viscous flow with free surface around a model-scaled KRISO container ship (KCS) was first numerically simulated. Then with a rigid-lid-free-surface method, the underwater flow field was computed based on the mixture multiphase model to simulate the bubbly wake around the KCS hull. The realizable k-ɛ two-equation turbulence model and Reynolds stress model were used to analyze the effects of turbulence model on the ship bubbly wake. The air entrainment model, which is relative to the normal velocity gradient of the free surface, and the solving method were verified by the qualitatively reasonable computed results.
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Hui-ping Fu was born in 1972. She is an associate professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her current research is focused on CFD of Ship Hydrodynamics, cavitation, and flow noise. She has published about 20 journal papers as the first writer. Currently she is a member of Shanghai Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. She is also a member of the Shanghai Society of Mechanics.
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Fu, H., Wan, P. Numerical simulation on ship bubbly wake. J. Marine. Sci. Appl. 10, 413–418 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11804-011-1086-x
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