Impact of a wedge in water: assessment of the modeling keyword, presence of cavitation and choice of the filter most suitable for the case study

Impact of a wedge in water: assessment of the modeling keyword, presence of cavitation and choice of the filter most suitable for the case study

D. Guagliardo, E. Cestino, G. Nicolosi, E. Guarino, A. Virdis, A. Alfero, D. Pittalis, M.L. Sabella

Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to compare the results obtained from a rigid wedge impacting water that is modelled using different techniques based on the SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) method. The study aims to evaluate the quality of the results, optimizing the computational time, which is obtained when the wedge is discretized as a section or as a half of it. The comparison of the results obtained considers the different materials that the ANSYS LS-DYNA software allows to assign to water through different keywords. The effect of cavitation on the pressures reached during the vertical impact was evaluated as a function of ambient temperature. Finally, given the high noise recorded in the pressure files, the study uses a filter created in MATLAB. The latter involves a double pass through the Kalman filter first and the Gauss filter later. All results obtained through the numerical method are compared with Von Karman and Wagner analytical theories.

Keywords
Fluid-Structure Interaction, SPH, Cavitation, Pressure Filter

Published online 11/1/2023, 5 pages
Copyright © 2023 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: D. Guagliardo, E. Cestino, G. Nicolosi, E. Guarino, A. Virdis, A. Alfero, D. Pittalis, M.L. Sabella, Impact of a wedge in water: assessment of the modeling keyword, presence of cavitation and choice of the filter most suitable for the case study, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 37, pp 197-201, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902813-43

The article was published as article 43 of the book Aeronautics and Astronautics

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