Numerical Study on Airfoil Diversion Technology Used in Saving Energy by Air Injection on Large Ship

The power consumption is too large when the method saving energy by air injection is used on large ship because of the deep draft. The feasibility and some key matters of the implication of airfoil diversion technology on air lubrication ,such as the attack angle, the distance from the airfoil to the plate and the position of the air injection, was investigate by a numerical method. The result shows that the pressure of the air injection entrance is significantly decreased by setting an airfoil at the air injection entrance reasonably, the pressure of the plate surface declines when the distance from the plate to the airfoil is decreasing and the attack angle is increasing, however, the resistance became larger. For the airfoil 2032cjc we investigated in this paper, when d/C=0.3, the attack angle range from 6°~8°,the pressure reduces comparative large and the resistance increases small. The best position for air injection is determined by the position and attack angle of the airfoil.