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Numerical Simulation of Propeller Hydrodynamics Using the Open Source Software

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The paper presents the results of numerical simulation of the propeller Ka4-70 using the actuator line model in the OpenFOAM, AMReX and Nek5000 open-source software. The modifications of the tools for wind farm simulation for these packages are carried out. Features of these implementation are described. For numerical calculations the LES and IDDES turbulence models are used. A comparison of the computational costs and accuracy of flow structures are made for the actuator line model using different methods and the arbitrary mesh interface approach. The actuator line model provides force characteristics and flow structures with good enough accuracy.

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Acknowledgements

The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR, Proj. No. 21-57-53019) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Proj. No. 52111530047).

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  1. Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Andrey Britov, Sofya Yarikova, Andrey Epikhin & Stepan Elistratov

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Stepan Elistratov

  3. Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

    Qin Zhang

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Britov, A., Yarikova, S., Epikhin, A., Elistratov, S., Zhang, Q. (2023). Numerical Simulation of Propeller Hydrodynamics Using the Open Source Software. In: Mikyška, J., de Mulatier, C., Paszynski, M., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2023. ICCS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36030-5_23

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