Gas entrainment from gaseous supercavities

The understanding of the internal gaseous flow of artificially ventilated supercavities is developed using a locally homogenous, multiphase computational fluid dynamics model that is benchmarked using experimental data. The solutions indicate that gas leakage from a ventilated supercavity originates from the gaseous shear layers forming at the gas-water interface. Not only do these observations corroborate previous theory developed for cavities with toroidal closure, they also display evidence that shear-layer mechanisms remain important for cavities in the twin-vortex regime and when interacting with bodies. It is also found that the treatment of turbulence in these shear layers affects the outcome of computational fluid dynamics approaches. Lastly, a semi-empirical model considering these shear layers is proposed. Results from the model indicate an improved prediction capability of the relationship between cavity size and ventilation rate for steady, twin-vortex supercavities.

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Work Title Gas entrainment from gaseous supercavities
Subtitle Insight based on numerical simulation
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  1. Michael P. Kinzel
  2. Jules W. Lindau
  3. Robert F. Kunz
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Work Type Article
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  1. Ocean Engineering
Publication Date February 1, 2021
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108544
Deposited July 15, 2021

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