Numerical Simulation for Ventilated Supercavitation High Speed Underwater Vehicle

Supercavitation is a revolutionary technique to achieve high drag reduction for underwater vehicle.It can help us to break through the conventional speed barrier.This article presents a numerical algorithm for ventilated supercavitation flow field based on mixture multiphase flow model,briefs the calculation results and compares them with that tested in high-speed water tunnel and towing tank.The mathematical model,its numerical calculation method,computational region and boundary conditions are discussed in detail.Some pertinent nondimensional parameters about the ventilated supercavitation,such as geometrical configuration of supercavity,drag coefficient and ventilation rate are investigated.Reynolds number is selected to predict gas ventilation rate instead of Froude number.Finally,based on the test and simulation results,a semi-empirical formula of the ventilation rate estimation suitable for different conical angle caritators is proposed.