It’s very complicated to calculate and analyze the wave and current loads on naval architectures since the sea condition is uncertain and complicated and the determinants vary from different form types and dimensions. For calculating the wave and current loads on upright small-long-size pipe, the Morrison equation is practical and applied. Jacket platform is a kind of offshore space frame structure comprised of lots of poles that are circular cylinders with small diameter and in the oblique status relative to seabed. In this paper, based on Morrison equation, the specific method and procedure calculating the wave and current loads on launching jacket are given and applied on a typical launching jacket. The instance shows that the method and procedure are convenient and make the calculation and analysis in good agreement with actual launching.
GPS/Dead-reckoning navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is introduced, which includes navigation overall architecture, hardware and software structure. Dead-reckoning theory is presented in details. And the strong tracking Kalman filter and Singer model are applied to handle the imprecise navigation mode, which can improve the navigation system’s precision and reliability. Finally, the sea experiments which include autonomous search mission in an unknown area and long distance motion are conducted to demonstrate the reliability and feasibility of the navigation system.
In this paper, the flow field is assumed to be inviscid, irrotational and incompressible, triangular elements are adopted to discretize the boundary of flow field, the boundary integral method is used to solve the flow field and the Mixed-Eulerian-Lagrangian method is applied to simulate the evolution of bubble. Three-dimensional smoothing method is used to smooth the bubble surface and the velocity potential to make the computing process more accurate and stable. In the analysis process, three-dimensional model simulates the dynamics of a bubble in the free field, gravitational field and near the rigid wall respectively, and the calculated results coincide well with the exact results and experimental data, which show that the algorithm and 3D model in this paper are of high accuracy. Calculation process indicates that bubble takes on strong non-linear under the combine effect of gravity and rigid wall.
The precision controlling technology is a key step for the modern ship construction, with the precision controlling of the ship-hull curvature as one of bottlenecks in shipbuilding, where the initial is to present a compensation value for the ship-hull plate precisely. The compensation value of the curvature plate is composed of two parts: the construction compensation, which results in the process of heating construction of curvature plate, and the assembling compensation, which results in welding ribbed stiffeners onto the curvature plate. Based on the developed computation system for the local contraction value, this paper presents a method to establish the experimented samples for the assembling compensation by means of numerical experiments, and another method to establish the practical mathematical model for the construction compensation of curvature plate. Furthermore, it introduces the experimental measuring method for the assembling compensation of the curvature plate, based on which the related database system has been developed. Numerical examples are analyzed to demonstrate the process to establish mathematical model for the assembling compensation values.
Exhaust temperature of the marine engine is commonly measured through thermocouple. Measure deviation will occur after using the thermocouple for some time due to nonlinearity of thermocouple itself, high temperature and chemical corrosion of measure point. Frequent replacement of thermocouple will increase the operating cost. This paper designs a new intelligent instrument for solving the above-mentioned problems of the marine engine temperature measurement, which combines the conventional thermocouple temperature measurement technology and SCM(single chip microcomputer). The reading of the thermocouple is simple and precise and the calibration can be made automatically and manually.
In view of the characteristics of underwater navigation, the simulation platform of navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicle has been developed based on Windows platform. The system architecture, net communication and the information flow are discussed. The methods of software realization and some key techniques of the Vehicle Computer and the Navigation Equipment Computer are introduced in particular. The software design of Terrain Matching Computer is introduced also. The simulation platform is verified and analyzed through simulation. The results show that the architecture of the platform is reasonable and reliable, and the mathematic models and simulation algorithms of sub-systems are also valid and practicable.
Chebyshev polynomial is widely used in many fields, and used usually as function approximation in numerical calculation. In this paper, Chebyshev polynomial expression of the propeller properties across four quadrants is given at first, then the expression of Chebyshev polynomial is transformed to ordinary polynomial for the need of simulation of propeller dynamics. On the basis of it, the dynamical models of propeller across four quadrants are given. The simulation results show the efficiency of mathematical model.
The effective method of the recognition of underwater complex objects in sonar image is to segment sonar image into target, shadow and sea-bottom reverberation regions and then extract the edge of the object. Because of the time-varying and space-varying characters of underwater acoustics environment, the sonar images have poor quality and serious speckle noise, so traditional image segmentation is unable to achieve precise segmentation. In the paper, the image segmentation process based on MRF (Markov random field) model is studied, and a practical method of estimating model parameters is proposed. Through analyzing the impact of chosen model parameters, a sonar imagery segmentation algorithm based on fixed parameters’ MRF model is proposed. Both of the segmentation effect and the low computing load are gained. By applying the algorithm to the synthesized texture image and actual side-scan sonar image, the algorithm can be achieved with precise segmentation result.
Vector transducer can simultaneously measure components of particle velocity as well as pressure at some point in sound field. In this paper, a series of equations are obtained from the correlation of particle velocity and pressure of the incident wave field, the error of each equation with white noise is studied, and Differential Evolution is used in solving the equations to distinguish multi-sources. Results of computer simulation show that Differential Evolution has more superiority than Genetic Algorithms on the rate and precision of convergence under the same condition.
A frequency invariant response algorithm is proposed for getting over the signal distortion in high frequency when the beamformer receives the broadband signals. In this method, the weight vector of the reference beam pattern is designed firstly, then the weight vectors when the beam response in the frequency sub-bands approaching the reference response mostly are computed by optimized method or adaptive method. By this method, the beam pattern in each sub-band can be almost kept invariable. As a result, the receiving chirp signal can be improved. Owing to the adoption of the adaptive method to approach the optimized vectors, it has no restricting of the array format and the element directivity, and the method can be used widely.
In order to verify the effectiveness of electrolytic treatment on ships’ ballast water, experiments are carried out by a pilot system in laboratory. The raw seawater and seawater with different concentrations of different algae are simulated as ships’ ballast water. The algae in the raw seawater can be killed if it is treated by electrolysis with an initial residual chlorine concentration of 5 mg/L. If the seawater with one kind of algae (Nitzschia closterum, Dicrateria spp., or Pyramidomonnas sp.105cells/mL) is treated by electrolysis with an initial residual chlorine concentration of 5 mg/L, the alga can be sterilized. If the seawater with one kind of algae (Dunaliella sp., Platymonas or Chlorella spp.) is directly treated by electrolyzing with an initial residual chlorine concentration of 4 mg/L, the instant mortality changes with the concentration of different algae. However, after 72 hours, in all treated samples, there are no live algal cells found.
A new polymer, poly-silicon-ferric with oxidization (PSFN) coagulant was produced by adding KMnO4 and stabilizer M to poly-silicon-ferric (PSF) coagulant. The micro properties of PSFN was investigated with optical microscope, transmission electron microscope(TEM), ultraviolet/visible absorption(UVA) scanning, infrared(IR) spectrometer and oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) meter respectively, compared to that of PSF. The coagulation behavior by PSFN was investigated compared to that by PSF. The results show that the micro properties of PSF have been changed greatly due to the addition of KMnO4, and there exists KMnO4 unattached in PSFN. A kind of tetrahedron structure somewhat like the connection of Si-O-Si bonds may be formed by the complexation of Mn (maybe in various valence) with PSF. PSFN has lower turbidity removal than PSF at lower dose and achieves the same when the dose reaches a definite amount, while the removal of UV254 by PSFN is higher than that by PSF almost over entire dose range with the largest difference of about 17%. PSFN has more oxidization function at acidic condition than that at basic condition, and gives stronger ability of application for treating various waters than that by PSF.