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Dynamical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Water Discharge Process of Spherical Objects

  • Lin Zhong
  • , Jiawei Dong
  • , Jiabin Liu
  • , Wei Wang
  • , Riyue Wu
  • , Shuqi Wang*
  • , Tao Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Guangdong University of Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

The process of an object leaping out of the water is very similar to the jumping process of an aquatic animal during prey or avoid predators. The study of the process of an object leaping out of the water is beneficial to the design of robots jumping out of water. In this work, the free jump of a sphere out of the water is successfully simulated based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software Fluent, with User-Defined Functions to control the motion of the sphere, the volume of Fluid model, dynamic meshing, and Detached Eddy Simulation. The velocity of the sphere at the water-air interface and the height of the sphere leaping out from the water surface obtained from the numerical simulation are compared with experimental results. The maximum error between the experimental and the simulated results is 2.28% in the water-discharge velocity and 2.65% in the leaping height from the water surface. In addition, this paper model the dynamics of the sphere during the water discharge process. The paper also analyses the free deformation of water surface, the water film rupture process on the surface of the sphere, the variation of fluid drag on the sphere, and the variation of the fluid velocity field during the free ascent of the sphere after acquiring an initial velocity of 2.81 m/s.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1551-1556
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350320831
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event20th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2023 - Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Duration: 6 Aug 20239 Aug 2023

Publication series

Name2023 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2023

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin, Heilongjiang
Period6/08/239/08/23

Keywords

  • Dynamics modelling
  • Fluent
  • Numerical simulation
  • Sphere out of water
  • Water discharge process

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