Abstract Underwater glider, as a new kind of autonomous underwater vehicles, has many merits such as long-range, extended-duration and low costs. The shape of underwater glider is an important factor in determining the hydrodynamic efficiency. In this paper, a high lift to drag ratio configuration, the Blended-Wing-Body (BWB), is used to design a small civilian under water glider. In the parametric geometric model of the BWB underwater glider, the planform is defined with Bezier curve and linear line, and the section is defined with symmetrical airfoil NACA 0012. Computational investigations are carried out to study the hydrodynamic performance of the glider using the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code Fluent. The Kriging-based genetic algorithm, called Efficient Global Optimization (EGO), is applied to hydrodynamic design optimization. The result demonstrates that the BWB underwater glider has excellent hydrodynamic performance, and the lift to drag ratio of initial design is increased by 7% in the EGO process.


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    Title :

    Parametric geometric model and shape optimization of an underwater glider with blended-wing-body


    Contributors:
    Sun, Chunya (author) / Song, Baowei (author) / Wang, Peng (author)


    Publication date :

    2015




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    BKL:    55.40 Schiffstechnik, Schiffbau / 50.92 Meerestechnik, Meerestechnik / 55.40 Schiffstechnik, Schiffbau, Schiffstechnik, Schiffbau / 50.92 Meerestechnik






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