Hydrodynamic characteristics of a 15 MW semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine in freak waves

W Zhong, X Zhang, D Wan - Ocean Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Dynamics of the floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) in harsh ocean environments gains
increasing attention due to the high maintenance costs in case of structural damage. The …

Application of an overset mesh based numerical wave tank for modelling realistic free-surface hydrodynamic problems

H Chen, L Qian, Z Ma, W Bai, Y Li, D Causon… - Ocean …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical wave tank based on the overset mesh approach. Overset
mesh is favourable to the moving mesh method owing to its ability to represent complex …

Numerical investigation of water entry characteristics of a projectile in the wave environment

C Wang, Q Huang, L Lu, G Pan, S Gao - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, water entry processes at various water entry velocities and attack angles are
simulated in hydrostatic and wave environments by using a realizable k–ε turbulence model …

REEF3D:: FNPF—A flexible fully nonlinear potential flow solver

H Bihs, W Wang, C Pakozdi… - Journal of …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In situations where the calculation of ocean wave propagation and impact on structures are
required, fast numerical solvers are desired in order to find relevant wave events …

Numerical modelling of pipeline scour under the combined action of waves and current with free-surface capturing

N Ahmad, H Bihs, D Myrhaug, A Kamath… - Coastal Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Understanding the pipeline scour processes under the combined action of waves and
current is essential for adequate scour protection measures. This paper presents the …

An improved depth‐averaged nonhydrostatic shallow water model with quadratic pressure approximation

W Wang, T Martin, A Kamath… - International Journal for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐resolved information is necessary for many coastal wave problems, for example, for
the wave conditions in the vicinity of harbor structures. Two‐dimensional (2D) depth …

Simulating the hydrodynamic response of a floater–net system in current and waves

H Chen, ED Christensen - Journal of Fluids and Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a novel numerical model for simulating current and wave interaction with a
floater–net system. The main contribution of the paper is the integration of the floater motion …

Numerical analysis of tsunami-like wave impact on horizontal cylinders

K Qu, XY Ren, S Kraatz, EJ Zhao - Ocean Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
During the past few decades, several tsunami events have caused tremendous devastation
to onshore and offshore infrastructures. Although the tsunami waves have been studied with …

[HTML][HTML] Properties of breaking irregular waves over slopes

A Aggarwal, MA Chella, H Bihs, D Myrhaug - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study numerically investigates the breaking and spectral characteristics and
geometric properties of breaking irregular waves over slopes for different incident waves …

Modeling porous coastal structures using a level set method based VRANS-solver on staggered grids

A Sasikumar, A Kamath, H Bihs - Coastal Engineering Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Several engineering problems in the field of coastal and offshore engineering involve flow
interaction with porous structures such as breakwaters, sediment screens, and scour …