Numerical analysis of the unsteady behavior of cloud cavitation around a hydrofoil based on an improved filter-based model

De Sheng Zhang, Hai Yu Wang, Wei Dong Shi, Guang Jian Zhang, B.P.M. van Esch

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The unsteady cavitation evolution around the Clark-Y hydrofoil is investigated in this paper, by using an improved filter-base model (FBM) with the density correction method (DCM). To improve the prediction accuracy, the filter scale is adjusted based on the grid size. The numerical results show that a small filter scale is crucial for the unsteady simulations of the cavity shedding flow. The hybrid method that combines the FBM and the DCM could help to limit the overprediction of the turbulent viscosity in the cavitation region on the wall of the hydrofoil and in the wake. The large value of the maximum density ratio ρlv,clip promotes the mass transfer rate between the liquid phase and the vapor phase, which results in a large sheet cavity length and the vapor fraction rise inside the cavity. The cavity patterns predicted by the improved method are verified by the experimental visualizations. The time-average lift, the drag coefficient and the primary oscillating frequency St for the cavitation number σ = 0.8, the angle of attack, α = 8°, at a Reynolds number Re = 7 × 105 are 0.735, 0.115 and 0.183, respectively, and the predicted errors are 3.29%, 3.36% and 8.93%. The typical three stages in one revolution are well-captured, including the initiation of the sheet/attached cavity, the growth toward the trailing edge (TE) with the development of the re-entrant jet flow, and the large scale cloud cavity shedding. It is observed that the cloud cavity shedding flow induces the vortex pairs of the TE vortices in the wake and the shedding vortices. The positive vorticity vortex of the re-entrant jet and the TE vortices interacts and merges with the negative vorticity vortex of the leading edge (LE) cavity to produce the shedding flow.

Originele taal-2Engels
Pagina's (van-tot)795-808
Aantal pagina's14
TijdschriftJournal of Hydrodynamics
Volume27
Nummer van het tijdschrift5
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 1 jan. 2015

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* Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51479083, 51579118) the Key Research and Development Project of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BE2015001-3). Biography: ZHANG De-sheng (1982-), Male, Ph. D., Associate Professor

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