Affiliation:
1. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2. Institute of Engineering Research, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
3. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, South Korea
Abstract
A pump-jet propeller is composed of a rotor, stator, and duct. A pre-swirl stator is employed to optimize flow into the rotor. The hydrodynamic and noise performances of pump-jet propellers vary with the stator angles. In this study, the hydrodynamic performance of a full-scale submarine and pump-jet propeller is assessed by conducting computational fluid dynamics simulations based on the Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equation. Additionally, broadband noise, blade-passing frequency noise, and a significant factor, that is, underwater radiated noise are predicted using Lighthill’s equation, Green’s function, and wall pressure spectrum. Unsteady forces were extracted from the flow field to obtain the blade-passing frequency noise. Broadband noise could not be calculated directly from the flow field owing to the absence of small eddies, and wall pressure spectrum was used to obtain high-frequency broadband noise. The overall noise, including broadband noise and blade-passing frequency noise, was evaluated. The optimal stator angle for the rotor at the self-propulsion point was determined considering the propulsion efficiency and noise level of the pump-jet propeller.