scholarly journals Normal and Tangential Drag Forces of Nylon Nets, Clean and with Fouling, in Fish Farming. An Experimental Study

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2238
Author(s):  
Yarko Niño ◽  
Kevin Vidal ◽  
Aldo Tamburrino ◽  
Luis Zamorano ◽  
Juan Felipe Beltrán ◽  
...  

Experiments in a laboratory tank have provided measurements of the normal and tangential drag forces exerted on flat nets for different flow conditions. From those forces, normal and tangential drag coefficients of the nets have been obtained as functions of the Reynolds number and the solidity index. The experiments used two types of nets employed in the operation of a cultivation center: the fish net and the sea lion net, for the clean situation and for real operating conditions, with fouling adhered to the nets. Polyethylene ropes were used to characterize the presence of fouling in the nets. The experiments were carried out to determine equations for the normal and tangential drag coefficients. For the normal drag coefficient, the equations are linear with the Reynolds number, and the coefficients of the equations are linear with the solidity index. The equations are not so accurate for the tangential drag coefficient. The Reynolds number is not a relevant parameter for this coefficient and neither is the solidity index for the fish net, but the coefficient grows slightly with it for single and double sea lion nets with fouling. The literature review on the drag forces of nets reports that the tangential drag force is around 30% of the normal drag force. This value is approximately an average value of the ratio for the sea lion net and is higher for the clean fish net in this article.

2018 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 02012
Author(s):  
Seni Susanti ◽  
Ea Cahya Septia Mahen ◽  
Ade Yeti Nuryantini

This paper presents drag force analysis of free falling object using software tracker. We use video cupclips that have been embedded in this software. The video featured cupcakes to which hung a number of different paper clips were dropped simultaneously. We track the trajectory of free falling cupclips using the software to get the information of position, speed, and acceleration of each cupcake against time. From the data we get the value of drag forces and drag coefficients for each time. The result shows that the drag force value increased to almost constant value, otherwise the drag coefficient is reduced to almost constant values well. According to the results, the analyzed data has good agreement with the theory. Thus, software tracker can be used as media to learn drag force easily and inexpensively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 147-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Beratlis ◽  
Elias Balaras ◽  
Kyle Squires

It is well established that dimples accelerate the drag crisis on a sphere. The result of the early drag crisis is a reduction of the drag coefficient by more than a factor of two when compared to a smooth sphere at the same Reynolds number. However, when the drag coefficients for smooth and dimpled spheres in the post-critical regime are compared, the latter is higher by a factor of two to three. To understand the origin of this behaviour, we conducted direct numerical simulations of the flow around a dimpled sphere, which is similar to commercially available golf balls, in the post-critical regime. By comparing the results to those for a smooth sphere, it is found that dimples, although effective in accelerating the drag crisis, impose a local drag penalty, which contributes significantly to the overall drag force. This finding challenges the broadly accepted view that dimples only indirectly affect the drag force on a sphere by energizing the near-wall flow and delaying global separation.


1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (02) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Sheldon I. Green ◽  
John R. Garfitt ◽  
G. Glenn Young

Measurements of the drag on a typical (52-section) log boom were made under calm conditions at sea. The drag coefficient based on planform area is essentially independent of Reynolds number over typical operating conditions, cD = 0.0083 + 0.0006. Engineering calculations suggest that the log boom drag is caused primarily by skin friction drag and that wake drag is slightly less important; wave drag is entirely insignificant. A small-scale (4-section) log boom was constructed to test the influence of log arrangement within the boom on boom drag. Neither aligning the front row of bundles transversely nor covering boom sections with an underwater shroud had a significant impact on the boom drag.


Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
John Hart ◽  
Jonathan Potts

This paper presents the first scale resolving computational fluid dynamic (CFD) investigation of a geometrically realistic feather shuttlecock with rotation at a high Reynolds number. Rotation was found to reduce the drag coefficient of the shuttlecock. However, the drag coefficient is shown to be independent of the Reynolds number for both rotating and statically fixed shuttlecocks. Particular attention is given to the influence of rotation on the development of flow structures. Rotation is shown to have a clear influence on the formation of flow structures particularly from the feather vanes, and aft of the shuttlecock base. This further raises concerns regarding wind tunnel studies that use traditional experimental sting mounts; typically inserted into this aft region, they have potential to compromise both flow structure and resultant drag forces. As CFD does not necessitate use of a sting with proper application, it has great potential for a detailed study and analysis of shuttlecocks.


2013 ◽  
Vol 860-863 ◽  
pp. 1547-1550
Author(s):  
Rui Le ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Nan Chang Sun ◽  
Bing Xu

It is well known that the hydraulic drag force on objects cant be ignored in computing the movement of objects in water. And the drag forces on sphere and cuboids have long been studied. While in hydraulic engineering, objects with regular tetrahedron shape are widely used to form the foundation and temporary dam for they can interlock each other to obtain a compacted integral. In this article the vertical hydraulic drag force on regular tetrahedron is studied by indoor experiments, the relation of the vertical hydraulic drag coefficient and the vertical velocity is proposed. And the max vertical speeds of different materials are deduced. The result is helpful to compute the movement of regular tetrahedron in water and estimate the impact effect on the groundwork.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Moe Føre ◽  
Per Christian Endresen ◽  
Hans V. Bjelland

Abstract New types of fish farms are often larger and structurally more complex than conventional fish farming structures, and associated challenges concerning safety and costs increase correspondingly. Thus, increased precision in structural design is required, with estimation of hydrodynamic loads on nets as an important topic. Today, both load coefficients for nets and measured netting dimensions are given with relatively high uncertainties. New knowledge for netting materials with high solidities as well as scaled netting commonly applied in model tests are included in the presented study. Results from towing tests and the development of a new mathematical expression for local drag coefficients (for netting twines) indicate that drag coefficients are not only dependent on solidity and Reynolds number, but may also be affected by the velocity reduction and the local velocity at the twines.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Y. Dedegil

Drag forces on bodies in non-Newtonian fluids which are to be described by using the Reynolds number should only contain forces which are associated with the fluid velocity or particle velocity. Forces due to the yield stress τ0 must be considered separately. According to its physical composition, the Reynolds number must be calculated by means of the fully representative shear stress including the yield stress τ0. Then the drag coefficient cD as a function of the Reynolds number can be traced back to that of Newtonian fluids.


Apparatus is described for measuring directly fluctuating lift and drag forces and steady mean drag force. These forces are exerted upon a cylinder placed so that its central axis is perpendicular to the direction of flow of water in a channel. Results are given for the stationary cylinder for the range of Reynolds number 3600 to 11 000.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Javad Izadi ◽  
Mazyar Dawoodian

Study of parachutes is very important in aerospace industry. In this research, the effect of various Reynolds numbers on a parachute with a vent and without a vent at the top on drag coefficient in a steady and turbulent condition is studied. After a complete research on an efficient grid study, the drag coefficients are calculated numerically. The Reynolds number is varied from 78000 to 3900000 (1 m/s to 50 m/s). It is found that, for a parachute without a vent at the top, as the Reynolds number is increased from 78000 to 800000, the drag coefficient is decreased from about 2.5 to 1.4, and then as the Reynolds number is increased to 1500000, the drag coefficient increased to about 1.62 and it stayed constant for higher Reynolds number up to 3900000. As the vent ratio of the parachute is increased from zero to 5 percent of the parachute inlet diameter, the drag coefficient increased and for further increase of the vent ratio diameter, the drag coefficient decreased, but the general variation of drag coefficient was the same as of same parachute with no vent.


1981 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 1067-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Blake

Two hydromechanical models are employed to analyse the motions of the caudal fin of a small specimen of Ostracion lentiginosum (Ostraciidae). Values of the drag coefficient of the body of the fish are inferred by equating the impulse of the thrust force produced over the tail beat cycle with the impulse of the drag force acting on the body over the same period of time. On average, the inferred values for the drag coefficient are within 15% of experimentally determined values. Drag coefficients for ostraciiform fish are an order of magnitude greater than those for streamlined fish. The hydromechanical efficiency of the caudal fin propeller of O. lentiginosum is calculated to be of the order of 0.5. This result is predicted by the hydromechanical theory.


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