Enhanced Extinction Curve Method for Roll Damping Estimation

FENG Pei-yun,FAN She-ming,b

(a.Science and Technology Laboratory of Water-jet Propulsion;b.Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ship Engineering,Marine Design&Research Institute of China,Shanghai 200011,China)

Enhanced Extinction Curve Method for Roll Damping Estimation

FENG Pei-yuana,FAN She-minga,b

(a.Science and Technology Laboratory of Water-jet Propulsion;b.Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ship Engineering,Marine Design&Research Institute of China,Shanghai 200011,China)

Accuracy of roll damping estimation plays a crucial role in ship roll motion predictions.Free-decay test is still so far one of the most useful and popular methods to estimate the roll damping coefficients.The so-called extinction curve method is often used for analyzing the free roll decay data.One shortcoming of this method is that it is derived based on free roll motion equations neglecting nonlinear restoring terms.On the other hand,more sophisticated energy method can take into account this nonlinearity but is relatively complicated to implement.In this paper,an enhanced extinction curve method is proposed,which can take into account the nonlinear restoring terms of ship hulls.The proposed method is in a simple form and is easier to apply than energy method.Numerical experiment proves the validity of the enhanced extinction curve method,and demonstrates its advantages over conventional extinction curve method.

roll damping;free decay test;enhanced extinction curve method;nonlinear restoring moment

0 Introduction

Ship roll motions are featured by highly nonlinear damping moment and restoring moment,which has been widely and intensively investigated by researchers over a long history.One key difficulty lies in the fact that viscous effect is dominant in the case of roll motion,so methods based on potential theory that work well with heave and pitch predictions are no longer applicable,unless the correct roll damping can be accurately estimated.The state of the art assumption is based on a quadratic model,where the linear part of roll damping accounts for the potential wave radiation damping and some frictional effect,while the quadratic part of roll damping accounts for drag forces,flow separation,and other nonlinear effects[1].In practice,the most commonly adopted methods for roll damping estimation can be categorized into three groups:

·Semi-empirical methods can give quick estimations of roll damping but only within a certain applicable range for limited ship types and conditions[2].For unconventional hull forms,there is no guarantee on the estimation accuracy.

·CFD computation based on different Navier Stokes solvers is a promising method[3-6],but the computation burden is very high and its accuracy is still not very reliable at the current stage[1].

·Model testing is so far the most reliable way for roll damping estimation,which can be further categorized into free decay test and forced roll test.By comparison,free decay test is much easier and cheaper to implement.Therefore,it is still so far one of the most useful and popular methods to estimate roll damping coefficients.

This study focuses on the roll damping estimation with free decay test,which is a classical problem already discussed by many researchers[7-10],but still left with several unsolved issues[11].New theories and methods continue to emerge in the recent decades.Ueno et al[12]studied the estimation of nonlinear roll damping for fishing boats by improved energy method and genetic algorithm;Li et al[13]studied the effect of waves on nonlinear roll damping;Oliveira and Fernandes[14]studied the bi-linear behavior of roll damping;Jang et al[15]proposed a new method for detecting non-linear damping and restoring forces in non-linear oscillation systems from transient data;Ma et al[16]adopted an energy method to estimate the roll damping coefficients of amphibious vehicle that can take into account its nonlinear restoring moment.

The contribution of this study is to propose an enhanced extinction curve method for roll damping estimation with free decay test.Compared with conventional extinction curve method which is derived based on free roll motion equations with linear restoring coefficient,the enhanced extinction curve method can further take into account the nonlinear restoring moment of ship hulls.Moreover,the proposed method is in a simple form and very easy to apply.

To introduce this method and demonstrate its validity,this paper is organized as follows:firstly,the energy method is introduced for the purpose of comparison,as well as to help better understand the derivation of enhanced extinction curve method.Then,derivation of the enhanced extinction curve method is elaborated and its validity is proved through numerical experiment,where the results from energy method and conventional extinction curve method are also compared.Finally,some conclusions are drawn.

1 Energy method

Before deriving the enhanced extinction curve method,it is helpful to first follow the derivation of the energy method as elaborated in Ref.

[16],where the following nonlinear free roll decay motion equation is considered:

where φ is the roll angle;Ixis the total roll moment of inertia in water;B1and B2are the linear and quadratic parts of damping coefficients,respectively;K1and K3are the linear and nonlinear parts of restoring coefficients,respectively.With some simple manipulation,we can come to the following equation:

According to energy method,the mechanical energy E corresponding to un-damped free oscillation case,which is the sum of kinetic energy and potential energy W,is as follows:

The key assumption of the energy method is that the decay of E equals to the work done by the damping moment,as shown in Eq.(5).Then,the energy loss function L()E is approximated by averaging over one cycle of oscillation,as shown in Eq.(6).

Through introducing the time varying phase angle θ0,the following relations are obtained:

Substitute Eq.(7)into Eq.(6),we will have

In order to calculate θ0,the following un-damped roll motion equation is considered as shown in Eq.(10).Let τ=ω0t,the analytical solution of φ and its natural roll period can be solved as shown in Eqs.(11)and(12).

where cn is the Jacobian elliptic function;φ0is the roll amplitude.

Using Eqs.(4),(7)and(11),sinθ0can be solved;subsequently,the terms A1(E)and A2(E)are obtained as shown in Eq.(13),where sn and dn are the Jacobian elliptic functions.

Now that L()E is the linear combination of b1and b2,the least square method can be used.First,define function P()E:

According to least square method,the error Q between estimated P′()E and its experimentally obtained value P()E should be minimized according to the following relationship:

Finally,the estimated roll damping coefficients b1′and b2′can be obtained:

2 Enhanced Extinction Curve Method

Compared with the energy method, the proposed enhanced extinction curve method(EECM)has a simpler form and is easier to implement.Considering the same free roll motion model as discussed in Chap.1,first it is assumed that the roll angle in one oscillation is:

where the roll amplitude φ0is approximated by the mean value of the positive and negative roll amplitudes within half oscillation period:

The energy dissipated due to the damping moment in half oscillation period can then be derived as:

The corresponding potential energy variation in half oscillation is:

Assuming that the potential energy variation equals to the energy dissipated by the damping moment,i.e.,ED=ER,then we come to the final form of the enhanced extinction curve method:

In the case of ε=0,Eq.(25)becomes the conventional extinction curve method(CECM)that neglects the nonlinear terms of restoring moment.Moreover,the implementation of EECM is almost the same as CECM,except that for each half oscillation period,the term Ψ needs to be evaluated additionally.

3 Numerical experiment

To validate the proposed method,numerical experiment is performed where the ideal roll decay time histories with known coefficients are used as input.Then,the EECM,the energy method and the CECM are adopted to estimate the damping coefficients,respectively.

The tested cases are listed in Tab.1,which are divided into three groups.The control of variable method is used for comparison purpose.In Group A,the nonlinear restoring moment coefficient ε is the changing variable;while in Groups B and C,the damping coefficients b1and b2are varied,respectively.For all tested cases,the initial roll amplitude is 20deg,and ω0=2.0.

Tab.1 Numerical experiment result

The results of all three methods are listed in Tab.1.To compare the three methods in a more intuitive way,the errors of b1and b2are presented in Fig.1 and Fig.2,respectively.The following points can be observed:

·All three methods can give fairly accurate estimation of b1,the maximum error of all cases is within 1%;however,the accuracy of b2estimation is not guaranteed,the maximum error can be up to 18%.

·From the results of Group A,it is clearly demonstrated that with the increasing of ε,the errors using CECM also keep growing.The EECM has the highest estimation accuracy of b1,and can help improve the estimation accuracy of b2,but not as effective as the energy method.

·From the results of Group B,it is shown that with the increasing of b1,the energy method can give the most accurate estimation of b1,but very poor estimation of b2.On the contrary,EECM can give the most accurate estimation of b2,and slightly poorer estimation of b1.

·From the results of Group C,it is shown that the increase of b2alone will not influence the estimation accuracy very much.All three methods can give fairly good result with EECM being the best among them.

Fig.1 Comparison of b1estimation errors

Fig.2 Comparison of b2estimation errors

Fig.3 Roll decay time history

Overall speaking,EECM has the best perform among the three methods,and effectively improves the estimation accuracy over CECM.

To further investigate the difference between EECM and CECM,the roll decay time history of test case A3,as shown in Fig.3,is used for the analysis.The resulting extinction curves according to EECM and CECM are illustrated in Fig.4.It is shown that the key difference between EECM and CECM is that the Y value is corrected according to Eq.(25),with respect to the value of ε,so as to obtain more accurate estimation of b1and b2.

4 Conclusions

An enhanced extinction curve method is proposed,which can take into account the nonlinear restoring terms of ship hulls.The proposed method is in a simple form and is easier to apply than energy method.Numerical experiment proves the validity of the enhanced extinction curve method,and demonstrates its advantages over conventional extinction curve method.The following conclusions can be drawn:

(1)With the increasing of ε,the EECM has the highest estimation accuracy of b1,and can help improve the estimation accuracy of b2,but not as effective as the energy method.

(2)With the increasing of b1,the energy method can give the most accurate estimation of b1,but very poor estimation of b2.On the contrary,EECM can give the most accurate estimation of b2,and slightly poorer estimation of b1.

(3)The increase of b2alone will not influence the roll damping estimation accuracy very much.All three methods can give fairly good result with EECM being the best among them.

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基于改进型消灭曲线法的横摇阻尼估算

封培元a， 范佘明a，b

（中国船舶及海洋工程设计研究院a.喷水推进技术重点实验室;b.上海市船舶工程重点实验室,上海200011）

自由衰减试验仍是目前最为有效且常用的估算横摇阻尼系数的方法。横摇阻尼系数的估算精度对于船舶横摇运动的预报起着至关重要的作用。通常采用所谓的消灭曲线法来分析自由横摇衰减数据。该方法的一个不足之处在于其推导是基于忽略了非线性恢复力项的自由横摇运动方程。另一方面，考虑更多非线性成分的能量法能够纳入该因素影响但在实施过程中较为复杂。文中提出了一种改进型的消灭曲线法，能够纳入船体非线性恢复力项的影响。所提出的方法形式简单且相比能量法更易于实施。数值试验证明了改进型消灭曲线法的正确性，并展现了其相对传统消灭曲线法所具有的优势。

横摇阻尼；自由衰减试验；改进型消灭曲线法；非线性恢复力项

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封培元（1987－），男，博士，中国船舶及海洋工程设计研究院，E-mail:pyfeng23@163.com；

范佘明（1963-），男，博士，中国船舶及海洋工程设计研究院教授/博士生导师。

U661.31 Document code:A

10.3969/j.issn.1007-7294.2017.12.005

date：2017-06-17

National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51709240 and 51579144)

Biography：FENG Pei-yuan(1987-),male,Ph.D.,E-mail:pyfeng23@163.com;

FAN She-ming(1963-),male,Ph.D.,professor/tutor.

1007-7294（2017）12-1489-08