The Remotely Operated Vehicle, so called “ROV” which has crawler based moving system is considered as one of the appropriate underwater vehicles for seafloor exploration or seabed resources development [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The advantages of crawler driven ROV are to be able to stay on a fixed sea bottom location and to be capable to do heavy works such as digging the seafloor. However, the ROV moving on the sea bottom with crawler based driving system easily turn over due to the buoyancy and hydrodynamic forces [8][9][10][11][12]. Therefore, it is important to know the moving capability of the ROV on the sea bottom for the design point of view. The authors have shown the condition for the normal running of the ROV which moves on horizontal and inclined flat sea bottom by means of a simple dynamic model [11]. Normal running means that the ROV runs without bow-up or stern-up situations and the crawlers touch the ground normally. The normal running condition of ROV indicates the constrained condition of the relation between gravity and buoyancy center locations for any given design parameters such as geometry, weight, displacement and running speed of the ROV. Though this method estimates the ROVs’ moving capability with acceptable accuracy, the hydrodynamic forces on the ROV and its application point are required for accurate estimation. In the previous research, those quantities are roughly estimated from the past experimental investigations. The present study investigated the flow around the crawler driven ROV which runs on seafloor with CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis to evaluate the characteristics of hydrodynamic forces acting on the ROV. The open source CFD code, OpenFOAM [13] was applied for flow calculation and the results were validated with model experiments. By using the calculated hydrodynamic forces on ROV, the moving capability of ROV was evaluated with a method the authors had shown. The estimates of the running capability of the ROV by using the CFD calculations are quite different from past estimations in some running conditions.
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ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
July 1–6, 2012
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-4494-6
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Numerical Investigation of Flow Around a ROV With Crawler Based Driving System
Tokihiro Katsui,
Tokihiro Katsui
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Satoshi Kajikawa,
Satoshi Kajikawa
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Tomoya Inoue
Tomoya Inoue
JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
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Tokihiro Katsui
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Satoshi Kajikawa
Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Tomoya Inoue
JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
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OMAE2012-83280, pp. 23-30; 8 pages
Published Online:
August 23, 2013
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Katsui, T, Kajikawa, S, & Inoue, T. "Numerical Investigation of Flow Around a ROV With Crawler Based Driving System." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Volume 7: Ocean Space Utilization; Ocean Renewable Energy. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 1–6, 2012. pp. 23-30. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2012-83280
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