Ke Zheng
- kzheng1@student.unimelb.edu.au
- Desk 105.04, Block C, Building 174
Thesis Title
Prediction of the ship air-wake for the helicopter landing safety
Research overview
A new proposed concept ship named NATO generic destroyer (NATO-GD) will be employed to conduct experiments in the Extreme Air-Sea Interaction (EASI) facility, which consists of a water tank and an open-return blower wind-tunnel above it. Ship motions with various degree-of-freedoms will be simulated to investigate the unsteady ship air-wake. The turbulent wake flow structures will be measured using an image-based measurement technique called Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), providing spatial flow fields to investigate any recurrent features associated with ship air-wake interaction. The ultimate goal should be predicting the helicopter landing safety based on the upstream flow conditions.
Supervisors
Dr Junghoon Lee
Qualifications
M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2018)
B.S. Mechanical System, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2016)