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Simulation of Irregular Waves in a Numerical Wave Tank [PDF]
Polish Maritime Research, 2015 The time domain boundary element method was utilized to simulate the propagation of the irregular waves in a numerical wave tank. The problem was solved in a time-marching scheme, upon the irregular waves being fed through the inflow boundary, in which ...
Zhi-Fu Li +4 more
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Numerical and Experimental Studies on a Three-Dimensional Numerical Wave Tank
IEEE Access, 2018 A 3-D numerical wave tank (NWT) is proposed in this paper to calculate the wave propagation and hydrodynamics force based on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by using the commercial computation fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The volume of fluid
Xiaojie Tian +4 more
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Identification of Wave Energy Device Models From Numerical Wave Tank Data—Part 1: Numerical Wave Tank Identification Tests [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 2016 In this paper and its companion, the identification of mathematical models describing the behaviour of wave energy devices (WECs) in the ocean is investigated through the use of numerical wave tank (NWT) experiments. This paper deals with the identification tests used to produce the data for the model identification.
Josh Davidson +2 more
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A Semi-Infinite Numerical Wave Tank Using Discrete Particle Simulations
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 With an increasing number of offshore structures for marine renewable energy, various experimental and numerical approaches have been performed to investigate the interaction of waves and structures to ensure the safety of the offshore structures ...
Sangmin Lee, Jung-Wuk Hong
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Wave Generation in a Numerical Wave Tank
International Journal of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, 2017 Developing numerical tanks to study wave structure interaction drew engineers’ attention in last decade. Numerical wave tanks are absolutely essential for investigating wave-structure interaction.
Milad Zabihi +2 more
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Study on the Active Wave Absorption Methods in Lattice Boltzmann Numerical Wave Tank
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringThe active wave absorption method has been widely employed in numerical wave tanks. The wave absorption performance of active wave absorption methods is investigated within a numerical wave tank based on a lattice Boltzmann method.
Guangwei Liu +3 more
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NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF HYDROFOIL PERFORMANCE IN WAVE BY NURBS NUMERICAL WAVE TANK
Transactions of FAMENA, 2015 Time domain simulation using a Mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian (MEL) formulation and a high-order boundary integral method based on the Non-Uniform Rational B-spline (NURBS) formulation is employed to develop a Numerical Wave Tank (NWT). At each time step the Laplace equation is solved in the Eulerian frame and fully nonlinear free surface conditions are ...
Abbasnia, Arash, Ghiasi, Mahmoud
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Numerical Investigation of a Hybrid Wave Absorption Method in 3D Numerical Wave Tank
Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2015 Applying an efficient numerical wave absorption method is very important for realization of an open sea condition especially for long time numerical fluid structure interaction simulation. This paper proposed a hybrid numerical wave absorption method for the fully nonlinear fluid structure simulation.
Chengxi Li
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Nonlinear wave transmission and pressure on the fixed truncated breakwater using NURBS numerical wave tank [PDF]
Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, 2014 Fully nonlinear wave interaction with a fixed breakwater is investigated in a numerical wave tank (NWT). The potential theory and high-order boundary element method are used to solve the boundary value problem.
Arash Abbasnia, Mahmoud Ghiasi
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Implementation of an OpenFOAM Numerical Wave Tank for Wave Energy Experiments [PDF]
, 2015 A numerical wave tank (NWT) can be a useful tool for wave energy experiments. This paper outlines the implementation of a NWT using the open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, OpenFOAM. In particular, the paper focusses on an NWT designed for experiments involving rigidbody type wave energy converters (WECs), using OpenFOAM version 2.3.
Davidson, Josh +4 more
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