Dynamic Characteristics and Effect on Thrust of Jet Tail Vortex Ring for Pump Jet Propulsion

Abstract

When a pump is propelled by a propeller, the nozzle flooding of the jet wake area will produce a turbulent quasi-sequence structure and have a certain impact on the outflow field structure and thrust characteristics of the water jet propulsion pump. In this paper, a method that combined numerical simulation with vortex dynamics is adopted, which analyzes the dynamic characteristics and influence on the thrust characteristics of the water jet propulsion pump. A large eddy simulation turbulence model and a dimensionless water jet propulsion pump velocity coefficient were used to reveal flow structure and relation, with the pump operation parameters of the wake vortex ring. The thrust with a trailing vortex ring is 7.0% higher than that without a trailing vortex ring. Vortex dynamics and mathematical statistics are combined to quantitatively analyze the dynamic characteristics of the jet tail vortex ring. Finally, the formation time of the vortex ring is obtained in exponential relation with dimensionless transmission velocity and vorticity coefficient, which has nonlinear relation with vortex intensity coefficient and helicity coefficient. BP Neural Network combined with the LM algorithm is used to establish the mathematical relationship between the thrust and the physical characteristic parameters of the vortex ring.