• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.18-24
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• 2016

Stabilizer fins are installed on each side of a ship to control its roll motion. The most common stabilizer fin is a rolling control system that uses the lift force on the fin surface. If the angle of attack of a stabilizer fin is zero or the speed is zero, it cannot control the roll motion. The Coanda effect is well known to generate lift force in marine field. The performance of stabilizer fin that applies the Coanda effect has been verified by model tests and numerical simulations. It was found that a stabilizer fin that applied the Coanda effect at Cj = 0.085 and a zero angle of attack exactly coincided with that of the original fin at α = 26°. In addition, the power needed to generate the Coanda effect was not high compared to the motor power of the original stabilizer fin.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1742-1743
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• 2011

항해 중인 선박에 가장 영향을 미치는 것은 해양파이다. 해양파는 주로 바람에 의해서 생성이 되며 지역적으로 바람의 세기와 방향이 다르기 때문에 파의 높이와 파의 길이가 정해져 있지 않은 불규칙파가 발생한다. 선박에 미치는 해양파의 힘에 따라 횡동요의 크기 및 주기가 달라진다. 해양파의 힘의 크기가 선박의 복원력보다 크게 되면 선박은 전복이 된다. 이런 이유로 선박 운동을 인위적으로 억제하기 위하여 Fin Stabilizer를 사용하게 되었다. Fin Stabilizer는 짧은 시간에 동작하여 선박의 안전을 향상시킬 수 있으며, 운행 효율을 높일 수 있기 때문에 최근 들어 널리 사용되고 있는 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 해양파의 힘이 선박에 영향을 미칠 때의 횡요각 변화를 관찰하고 설계한 제어기의 성능정도를 위한 Simulation을 수행하였다. Simulation 결과를 토대로 Fin Stabilizer를 제어하기 위한 Digital 제어기를 구성하였다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.18-28
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• 2008

Fins are widely used for roll stabilization of passenger ferries and high performance naval ships, among others. In the present study, numerical simulations are performed to investigate the influence of end-plates upon the cavitation characteristics of a stabilizer fin for various angles of attack and speeds and the results are verified through a series of model experiments. It is found that a considerable retardation in tip vortex cavitation can be achieved with attachment of end-plates at the tip of the stabilizer fin. The results can be utilized for the design of stabilizer fins as well as the development of high performance control devices for ships.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.113-120
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• 2011

Fins are widely used for roll stabilization of passenger ferries and high performance naval ships, among others. The Coanda effect is noticeable when a jet stream is applied tangentially to a curved wing surface since the jet can augment the lift by increasing the circulation. The Coanda effect has been found useful in various fields of aerodynamics and speculated to have practical applicability in marine hydrodynamics where various control surfaces are used to control motions of ships and the other offshore structures. In the present study, numerical computations have been performed to find proper jet momentum coefficients $C_j$ and trailing edge shapes suitable for the application of the Coanda effect to a stabilizer fin. The results show that the lift coefficient of the modified Coanda fin at the zero angle of attack ${\alpha}$ identically coincides with that of the original fin at ${\alpha}\;=\;25^{\circ}$ when Coanda jet is supplied at the rate of $C_j$ = 0.1. It is also shown that a fixed type fin stabilizer utilizing the Coanda effect can be implemented without changing the fin angle to actively control the motions of ships and the other offshore structures.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.10-15
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• 2013

A ship cruising in the ocean oscillates continuously due to wave action. In order to reduce the ship's roll, we developed a fin stabilizer as an anti-rolling device for a 500-ton-class high-speed marine vessel. During the development phase, it was necessary to set up control gains for the motion and hydraulic systems and assess the effectiveness of the anti-rolling performance on the ground. For this reason, a Target Simulator, which simulated the ship's motion, was given operator inputs such as the engine telegraph and waterjet deflection angle, and generated roll using a one-degree-of-freedom motion base. Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) was performed using the Target Simulator in order to confirm the various logics of the developed fin stabilizer, select initial control gains, and estimate the anti-rolling performance. In conclusion, it was confirmed that HILS was very helpful to develop the fin stabilizer because it could reduce the number of sea trial tests that were needed and could find many malfunctions in the factory a priori.

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 1985

Utilizing the theory of ship motions, the effect of fin stabilizer on the roll motion has been investigated. From the analysis, a general design procedure has been derived for a particular ship in specific operational condition and sea states. Finally, a working example has been given to show how the introduced method could be applied in practical design.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.44 no.2 s.152
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• pp.55-63
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• 2007

Fins are widely used for roll stabilization of car ferries and passenger ships as well as high performance naval ships. In the present study, model experiments and numerical simulations are performed to investigate the influence of tail blades on the performance of a fin stabilizer for various angles of attack. It is found that a considerable improvement in performance of the fin stabilizer is achieved with adoption of the tail blades. The results can be utilized for the design of a high-lift control surfaces including fin stabilizers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.86-90
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• 2001

Demand of good seakeeping perfomace is increasing for sea going vessels such as cruisers, naval ships and container ships. Especillay roll motion is one of major concerns in evaluation of seakeeping performance due to its large resonace motion. Since large roll resonance motion is mainly arised from inherent small damping. use of additional mechnism to provide roll damping can significantly reduce roll motion. In this paper, a reliable performace evaluation method of fin stabilizer, which is very useful for stabilizing roll motion of mid and high speed vessls, is described. Model test and time domain simulation methods are adopted for performance evaluation in which real operating situation of fin stabilizer can be exactly modelled. Model test and simulation results show good correlations between model test and simulation results.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.7
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• pp.597-603
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• 2007

A predictive controller can solve a control problem related to a disturbance-dominant system such as roll stabilization of a ship in waves. In this paper, a predictive controller is developed for a fin stabilizer. Future wave-induced moment is modeled simply using two typical regular wave components for which six parameters are identified by the recursive Fourier transform and the least squares method using the past time series of the roll motion. After predicting the future wave-induced moment, optimal control theory is applied to discover the most effective command fin angle that will stabilize the roll motion. In the results, wave prediction performance is investigated, and the effectiveness of the predictive controller is compared to a conventional PD controller.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

Recently, very large container ships are emerging as shipment of containers is expected to rapidly increase near future. A possibility of roll resonant motion in a seaway is expected to noticeably increase for large container ships of which capacity ranges 8,000 to 15,000 TEU due to relatively wide breadth and shallow draft comparing to conventional container ships. In this paper, a design and performance evaluation of a fin stabilizer for a 9,000 TEU container ship is carried out. The weak opposed control concept is adopted for the design. Time domain simulations and model tests are performed for performance evaluation. The design prediction, the model tests and the simulations show generally good agreements.