CALCULATION OF THE TIME-TO-FLOOD OF A BOX-SHAPED BARGE BY USING CFD
CALCULATION OF THE TIME-TO-FLOOD OF A BOX-SHAPED BARGE BY USING CFD
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2009
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C. Strasser;A. Jasionowski;D. Vassalos
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C. Strasser;A. Jasionowski;D. Vassalos
This paper addresses the assessment of the damage survivability of a fictitious model of a boxshaped barge which has been used as ITTC validation model. The most important aim of this research is to find out about the time-to-flood of damaged vessels. Therefore floodwater dynamics and water ingress through various openings and opening shapes in the ship superstructure are accounted. Starting point of this research is a thorough review of the available literature striking models and methods, which assess damage stability and survivability of passenger ships, aiming to identify strength and weaknesses of existing theories. Based on this knowledge it is decided to utilise Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) which gives to date more information and details of the physics of progressive flooding than any other numerical method. A commercial numerical CFD code is used to create a set-up with appropriate boundary conditions. In this approach, it is attempted to account for all possible physical effects with state-of-the art numerical methods. Depending on the geometry of the model, compressible air is used in the simulation, where trapped air is expected or, where the influence of trapped air could be crucial. Moreover, a kturbulence model is adopted in areas of high flow velocities in order to model the water and air flow through the damage opening and internal openings as true-to-life as possible. Additionally, a six degrees-of-freedom solver has been integrated which simulates ship motions by grid remeshing and grid smoothing methods. The numerical model described in this paper represents the most advanced treatment to date of modelling the process of progressive flooding with the use of CFD. It can be concluded that the applied method agrees perfectly with all validation cases and that accuracy is satisfactory though simulations with simplified models are carried out. Inferential, the prediction of time-to-flood is mainly derived in a period where the ship remains in quasi-hydrostatic conditions. 1 Research Assistant, NAME, Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde 2 Professor, NAME, Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde