Experimental investigation on the drag reducing efficiency of the outer-layer vertical blades |
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Authors: | Hyun Park Nam Hyun An Nicholas Hutchins Kwing-So Choi Ho Hwan Chun Inwon Lee |
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Affiliation: | (1) Advanced Ship Engineering Research Center (ASERC), Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea;(2) Division of Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, Koje College, Gyeongsangnam-do, 656-701, Korea;(3) Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, 3010, Australia;(4) School of Mechanical, Materials, Manufacturing Engineering and Management, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; |
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Abstract: | An experimental assessment has been made of the drag reducing efficiency of the outer-layer vertical blades, which were first devised by Hutchins and Choi (Proceedings of ASME FEDSM’02 2002 ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Montreal) and Hutchins (An investigation of larger-scale coherent structures in fully developed turbulent boundary layers, Hutchins N (2003), PhD thesis, University of Nottingham). The reported drag reduction efficiency, which was as much as 30%, was quantified only in terms of the reduction in the local skin-friction coefficient. The assessment of the drag reducing efficiency did not take the side effects of the inclusion of the blades into considerations. Those effects are the increase in the wetted surface area and the flow disturbances due to the presence of the blades. In the present study, a series of drag force measurements in towing tank has been performed toward the assessments of the total drag reduction efficiency of the outer-layer vertical blades. It was found that for the case of h 4.0 × z 4.0 (h/δ = 1.04), the outer-layer vertical blades array achieved about 9.6% drag reduction without considering the increase in the wetted surface area. A proper scaling method to give collapsed plot of drag reduction efficiency C F/C F0 was attempted, but the correlation remained limited. Of the two scaling methods, the outer scaling is found to be relevant one. |
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