Computational fluid dynamics simulations of ship airwake with a hovering helicopter rotor

2016-01-01
Orbay, Ezgi
Sezer Uzol, Nilay
Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations of ship airwake are performed together with an actuator disk model for a rotor model hovering over the flight deck. The flow around Simple Frigate Shape 2 (SFS2) is computed in steady-state and unsteady conditions by solving RANS and hybrid RANS/LES equations. The unstructured grid is generated for the ship geometry. Also, an actuator disk is added into the model to investigate downwash effect of rotor on ship airwake and interaction of rotor and ship airwake.
9th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD 2016

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Citation Formats
E. Orbay and N. Sezer Uzol, “Computational fluid dynamics simulations of ship airwake with a hovering helicopter rotor,” presented at the 9th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD 2016, İstanbul, Türkiye, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85086288047&origin=inward.