CFD modelling of ships
OWS Polarfront
To obtain high quality air-sea flux measurements from this ship the effects of flow distortion have to be taken into account. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling was used to study the flow of air over the Polarfront to determine the wind speed bias at the anemomter locations.
The simulations were solved using computational grids of up to 3 million cells. This UK-SOLAS project was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (grant number NE/C001826/1).
Fig. 1 : the bow-on airflow over the OWS Polarfront
Fig. 2 : the airflow 100 degrees off the starboard bow of the OWS Polarfront
Links
References
- Moat, B. I. and M. J. Yelland, 2009: Air Flow distortion at anemometer sites on the Polarfront, NOC Internal Document 14, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. 35pp. pdf
