This animation shows salt-water volume fraction contours on several planes during a ballast water exchange simulation in a full-scale tank. he time steps between the animation frames increases during the later portions of the animation. Initial fresh water in the tank is shown in red, while incoming salt water is in blue.

 

Image courtesy of Wesley Wilson, an engineer with the Computational Fluid Dynamics group at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in Bethesda, MD, and his colleagues.  Learn more about the research going on at the Navy’s Carderock divison.

 

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