Abstract:This research paper numerically investigated the hydrodynamic resistance of Multipurpose Amphibious Vehicles (MAV)

This paper numerically investigated the hydrodynamic resistance of Multipurpose Amphibious Vehicles (MAV) in three bow shapes to approach the better hull bow shape design. This type of vehicle and other blunt-shaped floating vehicles encounter the problem of a large bow wave forming at high speeds. This wave formation is accompanied by higher resistance and at a critical speed results in bow submergence or swamping. Three new shapes of hull bow design for the multipurpose amphibious vehicle were conducted at several speeds to investigate the hydrodynamic phenomena using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD, RANS code) which is applied by Ansys-CFX14.0 and Maxsurf. The vehicle’s hydrodynamic bow shapes were able to break up induced waves and avoid swamping. Comparative results with the vehicle fitted with U-shape, V-shape and Flat-shape of hull bow, showed that the U-shape of the hull bow has reduced the total resistance to 20.3% and 13.6% compared with the V-shape and flat shape respectively. Though, the U-shape of hull bow is capable to increase the amphibious operating life and speed of vehicle in calm water. Also it has ability to reduce the vehicle’s required power, fossil fuel consumption and wetted hull surface.

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MultipurposeAmphibiousVehicles(MAV)and other blunt-shaped floating vehicles encounter the problem of a large bow wave forming at high speeds. This wave formation is accompanied by higher resistance and at a critical speed results in bow submergence or swamping. Three new shapes of hull bow design for the multipurpose amphibious vehicle were conducted at several speeds to investigate the hydrodynamic phenomena using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD, RANS code) which is applied by Ansys-CFX14.0 and Maxsurf. The vehicle’s hydrodynamic bow shapes were able to break up induced waves and avoid swamping. Comparative results with the vehicle fitted with U-shape, V-shape and Flat-shape of hull bow, showed that the U-shape of the hull bow has reduced the total resistance to 20.3% and 13.6% compared with the V-shape and flat shape respectively. Though, the U-shape of hull bow is capable to increase the amphibious operating life and speed of vehicle. Also it has ability to reduce the vehicle’s required power, fossil fuel consumption and wetted hull surface.

AbstractIn this paper, computational study of Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) combustion is analyzed. The results are concern about volume fraction and velocity distribution along the boiler. Simulation result were present in velocity, volume fraction, and pressure profile in boiler. All discussed result are applicable to all type of fluidized bed boiler. This paper will concern about how fluidization and combustion occur in boiler. Simulation present in unsteady state, multiphase direction, k-ε standard turbulence model, species transport combustion model and DPM. In this simulation, fuel, air, and other input materials are defined by actual data from power plant operation. As a result of analysis, the variation of secondary air does affect the characteristics of fluidization and combustion in CFB system. The superficial velocity is found around 4.1 m/s. The pressure generated is about 6642.3 Pa in the windbox area, and in the middle furnace area about -868.6 Pa.