A finite volume model was built upon earlier work with the aim of simulating free surface flows, pressurized flows and their simultaneous occurrence (mixed flows) in single-liquid and two-phase flow conditions (entrapment and release of air pockets). The model presented herein is based on a two-governing equation model. Three main contributions are presented herein, namely: (1) the ability of t...

As a category of challenging flow problems, flows with moving boundaries and interfaces, includes fluid–particle, fluid–object and fluid–structure interactions; free-surface and two-fluid flows; and flows with moving mechanical components. To address the challenges involved in computation of this category of problems, we developed a number of interface-tracking and interface-capturing technique...

Abstract Submarine needs to complete more tasks near the free-surface area in modern war. When sailing free surface, self-propelled characteristics of submarine and its nearby flow field will be affected by surface. This paper presents research on self-propulsion surface with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. We take generic Joubert BB2 Marine 7371R propeller models as objects. The RAN...

Though computational techniques for two-dimensional viscoelastic free surface flows are well developed, three-dimensional flows continue to present significant computational challenges. Fully coupled free surface flow models lead to nonlinear systems whose steady states can be found via Newton’s method. Each Newton iteration requires the solution of a large, sparse linear system, for which memo...