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Microbubble - A unique technology for reducing the drag of wind farm service vessels

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Wenxian YangORCiD, Dr Haibo Yang, Dr Jiabin Wang

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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 2019.

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Abstract

Many experimental tests and model simulation research have been conducted previously in order to explore the potential of microbubbles in reducing the drag of vessels. However, different conclusions are drawn in different open literatures. In view of this, model simulation research is further conducted in this paper in order to seek the consensus on the influences of microbubble size, microbubble density, and microbubble initial velocity on drag reduction. From the model simulation results, it has been found that increasing microbubble density and their initial velocity will increase the local bubble volume fraction, thus increases drag reduction. However, the change of microbubble size will not influence drag reduction significantly. This research finding will be of very importance to the future design of low resistance wind farm service vessels.


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Author(s): Yang W, Yang H, Wang J, Sheng M, Wang M

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Design & Operation of Wind Farm Support Vessels

Year of Conference: 2019

Pages: 25-31

Online publication date: 27/02/2019

Acceptance date: 06/12/2018

Date deposited: 28/02/2019

Publisher: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

URL: https://www.rina.org.uk/Wind_Farm_Vessels2019.html

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781909024885


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