Le développement de techniques de mesure optiques de surfaces libres permettant la mesure des ondes générées par un modèle de navire en bassin des carènes est proposé dans ce mémoire. Trois méthodes, toutes basées sur un système de prises de vues stéréoscopiques, sont présentées. La première repose sur l'emploi de procédures d'inter-corrélation des images des caméras composant le système de stéréovision. La seconde s'appuie sur la théorie de la réfraction de la lumière au travers de l'interface air/eau. La troisième méthode est basée sur l'identification des projections de faisceaux laser sur la surface libre vue par un système stéréoscopique. Ces méthodes sont appliquées à la mesure du champ de vague autour d'un modèle de navire tracté dans le bassin des carène de l'Institut Pprime et dans un bassin des carènes de grande taille (B600 de la DGA Techniques hydrodynamique) et permettent la reconstruction et l'analyse du sillage. Les principales caractéristiques des champs de vagues et leurs dépendances au nombre de Froude sont étudiées en détail. Afin de compléter l'étude de l'écoulement généré par le modèle de navire, des mesures de PIV stéréoscopique autour de la carène, des mesures spécifiques de la vague d'étrave et des simulations numériques sont réalisées. L'ensemble de ces données permettent l'analyse de champs de vitesse tridimensionnelle proche de la coque et l'identification du lien des caractéristiques du champ de vague de l'étrave jusqu'au champ lointain. / This thesis presents the development of optical measurement techniques for applications to the analysis of free surface waves generated by ship models in towing tanks. Three methods based on stereoscopic systems are presented. The first is based on the cross-correlation of images of the free surface, the second on the theory of the refraction of light through the air / water interface and the third method on the projection of laser beams on the free surface viewed by a stereoscopic system. These three methods are applied to measure the wave field around ship models towed in the towing tank of the Pprime Institute and in a large towing tank (B600 DGA hydrodynamic techniques). These measurements allow the reconstruction and analysis of the ship wake. To complete the study of the flow generated by the ship model, stereoscopic PIV measurements around the hull, specific measurements of the bow wave and numerical simulations are performed. These data allow the analysis of three-dimensional velocity fields close to the hull and the study of the characteristics of the ship waves from the bow wave to the far field.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / We numerically investigate the underlying physics of two peculiar phenomena, which are axis-switching and saddle-back velocity profile, in both laminar and turbulent rectangular jets using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Previously developed computation protocols based on single-relaxation-time (SRT) and multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann equations are utilized to perform direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) respectively. In the first study, we systematically study the axis-switching behavior in low aspect-ratio (AR), defined as the ratio of width over height, laminar rectangular jets with <italic>AR=1</italic> (square jet), 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3. Focuses are on various flow properties on transverse planes downstream to investigate the correlation between the streamwise velocity and secondary flow. Three distinct regions of jet development are identified in all the five jets. The <italic>45&deg</italic> and <italic>90&deg</italic> axis-switching occur in characteristic decay (CD) region consecutively at the early and late stage. The half-width contour (HWC) reveals that <italic>45&deg</italic> axis-switching is mainly contributed by the corner effect, whereas the aspect-ratio (elliptic) feature affects the shape of the jet when <italic>45&deg</italic> axis-switching occurs. The close examinations of flow pattern and vorticity contour, as well as the correlation between streamwise velocity and vorticity, indicate that <italic>90&deg</italic> axis-switching results from boundary effect. Specific flow patterns for <italic>45&deg</italic> and <italic>90&deg</italic> axis-switching reveal the mechanism of the two types of axis-switching respectively. In the second study we develop an algorithm to generate a turbulent velocity field for the boundary condition at jet inlet. The turbulent velocity field satisfies incompressible continuity equation with prescribed energy spectrum in wave space. Application study of the turbulent velocity profile is on two turbulent jets with <italic>Re=25900</italic>. In the jets with <italic>AR=1.5</italic>, axis-switching phenomenon driven by the turbulent inlet velocity is more profound and in better agreement with experimental examination over the laminar counterpart. Characteristic jet development driven by both laminar and turbulent inlet velocity profile in square jet (<italic>AR=1</italic>) is also examined. Overall agreement of selected jet features is good, while quantitative match for the turbulence intensity profiles is yet to be obtained in future study. In the third study, we analyze the saddle-back velocity profile phenomenon in turbulent rectangular jets with AR ranging from 2 to 6 driven by the developed turbulent inlet velocity profiles with different turbulence intensity (<italic>I</italic>). Saddle-back velocity profile is observed in all jets. It has been noted that the saddle-back's peak velocities are resulted from the local minimum mixing intensity. Peak-center difference <italic>&Delta_pc</italic> and profound saddle-back (PSB) range are defined to quantify the saddle-back level and the effects of AR and <italic>I</italic> on saddle-back profile. It is found that saddle-back is more profound with larger AR or slimmer rectangular jets, while its relation with <italic>I</italic> is to be further determined.