Drag analysis of URRG Vertical Profiler (UVP) using integration of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Design of Experiments (DOE)

Abstract

Dynamics analysis of a system is important before any controller can be applied on a system, especially for autonomous system. For underwater system, the dynamic analysis is a critical stage since the operator do not have any access on what happen to the system when it have been deploy. This paper suggest on analysis on underwater vertical profiler system using integration of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Design of Experiments (DOE). It is to analyze the vertical drag coefficients when the velocity and the depth are varied. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.