Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations
Underwater torpedoes have become a serious threat to ocean liners and warships, and the interception against attacking torpedoes is always the hotspot in marine engineering. To simulate the underwater torpedo interception by a high velocity projectile, this work numerically deals with the process of...
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| description | Underwater torpedoes have become a serious threat to ocean liners and warships, and the interception against attacking torpedoes is always the hotspot in marine engineering. To simulate the underwater torpedo interception by a high velocity projectile, this work numerically deals with the process of projectile water entry and sequent penetration into underwater aluminum shells, whereby conical and ogival nose projectiles are comparatively studied. With the arbitrary Lagrange–Euler (ALE) algorithm adopted to describe fluid medium, the projectile water entry model is developed and validated against the test data. Similarly, the penetration model validation is made by modeling a tungsten ball perforation on an aluminum plate. Covered by water fluid, the air-backed aluminum shell is utilized to simulate an underwater torpedo subjected to projectile impact. The numerical predictions of underwater penetration reveal that ogival nose projectiles have a superior performance in underwater motion and perforation while conical nose counterparts deteriorate the shell targets more severely. For 20 cm, 40 cm and 60 cm underwater depth scenarios, a numerical prediction suggests that the energy consumed by water is proportional to the water depth, meanwhile aluminum shell perforation absorbs almost the identical projectile kinetic energy. Such findings may shed some light on the nose shape optimization design of high velocity projectile intercepting underwater torpedoes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-97420cf3eda24b64ace3254eaffcf5a62023-11-16T21:28:31ZengMDPI AGJournal of Marine Science and Engineering2077-13122023-02-0111239210.3390/jmse11020392Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception SimulationsChucai Peng0Chufan Ding1Bin Chen2Xichen Sun3Weibing Li4Taotao Qin5Jun Feng6School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, Yueyang 414006, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaNational Key Laboratory of Transient Physics, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, ChinaUnderwater torpedoes have become a serious threat to ocean liners and warships, and the interception against attacking torpedoes is always the hotspot in marine engineering. To simulate the underwater torpedo interception by a high velocity projectile, this work numerically deals with the process of projectile water entry and sequent penetration into underwater aluminum shells, whereby conical and ogival nose projectiles are comparatively studied. With the arbitrary Lagrange–Euler (ALE) algorithm adopted to describe fluid medium, the projectile water entry model is developed and validated against the test data. Similarly, the penetration model validation is made by modeling a tungsten ball perforation on an aluminum plate. Covered by water fluid, the air-backed aluminum shell is utilized to simulate an underwater torpedo subjected to projectile impact. The numerical predictions of underwater penetration reveal that ogival nose projectiles have a superior performance in underwater motion and perforation while conical nose counterparts deteriorate the shell targets more severely. For 20 cm, 40 cm and 60 cm underwater depth scenarios, a numerical prediction suggests that the energy consumed by water is proportional to the water depth, meanwhile aluminum shell perforation absorbs almost the identical projectile kinetic energy. Such findings may shed some light on the nose shape optimization design of high velocity projectile intercepting underwater torpedoes.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/2/392torpedo interceptionunderwater penetrationwater entryaluminum shell |
| spellingShingle | Chucai Peng Chufan Ding Bin Chen Xichen Sun Weibing Li Taotao Qin Jun Feng Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations Journal of Marine Science and Engineering torpedo interception underwater penetration water entry aluminum shell |
| title | Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations |
| title_full | Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations |
| title_fullStr | Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations |
| title_short | Air-Backed Aluminum Shells Subjected to Underwater Penetration: Torpedo Interception Simulations |
| title_sort | air backed aluminum shells subjected to underwater penetration torpedo interception simulations |
| topic | torpedo interception underwater penetration water entry aluminum shell |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1312/11/2/392 |
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