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标题：Hydrodynamic Modelling for a Transportation System of Two Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: Semi-Empirical, Numerical and Experimental Analyses
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作者：Faheem Ur Rehman ; Luofeng Huang ; Enrico Anderlini 等
期刊名称：Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
电子版ISSN：2077-1312
出版年度：2021
卷号：9
期号：5
页码：500
DOI：10.3390/jmse9050500
语种：English
出版社：MDPI AG
摘要：Underwater transportation is an essential approach for scientific exploration, maritime construction and military operations. Determining the hydrodynamic coefficients for a complex underwater transportation system comprising multiple vehicles is challenging. Here, the suitability of a quick and less costly semi-empirical approach to obtain the hydrodynamic coefficients for a complex transportation system comprising two Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) is investigated, where the interaction effects between UUVs are assumed to be negligible. The drag results were verified by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis at the steady state. The semi-empirical results agree with CFD in heave and sway; however, they were overpredicted in surge due to ignoring the wake effects. Furthermore, experiments were performed for the validation of the time-domain motion simulations with semi-empirical and CFD results. The simulations which were performed with the CFD drags were close to the experiments. The semi-empirical approach could be relied on once a correction parameter is included to account for the interactive effect between multiple UUVs. Overall, this work makes a contribution by deriving a semi-empirical approach for the dynamic and controlling system of dual UUVs, with CFD and experiments applied to ascertain its accuracy and potential improvement.