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Adria Moreno Miquel, Arun Kamath, Mayilvahanan Alagan Chella, Renata Archetti and Hans Bihs
In this paper, the performance of different wave generation and absorption methods in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based numerical wave tanks (NWTs) is analyzed. The open-source CFD code REEF3D is used, which solves the Reynolds-averaged Navier?Sto...
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Adria Moreno Miquel, Arun Kamath, Mayilvahanan Alagan Chella, Renata Archetti and Hans Bihs
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Bret Bosma, Tim Lewis, Ted Brekken and Annette von Jouanne
A key component in bringing ocean wave energy converters from concept to commercialization is the building and testing of scaled prototypes to provide model validation. A one quarter scale prototype of an autonomous two body heaving point absorber was mo...
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Dongxi Liu, Xiaoying Wang and Yujiao Chen
In this work, in order to elucidate the three-dimensional (3D) resonant sloshing dynamics of the oil?water interface in an offshore cylindrical wet storage tank, a series of model experiments are conducted in a completely filled cylindrical tank containi...
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Reza Zandi, Khosro Lari and Mohammad Najafzadeh
In this research, experimental and numerical studies of water waves in a wave tank are analyzed and how to find the optimum beach slope for numerical simulation is also investigated. First, with the aid of a wave tank (flap type), waves with different wa...
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Guoxu Niu, Yaoyong Chen, Jiao Lv, Jing Zhang and Ning Fan
A two-dimensional viscous numerical wave tank coded mass source function in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software Flow-3D 11.2 is built and validated. The effect of the core influencing factors (draft, breakwater width, wave period, and wave heig...
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Rameeza Moideen and Manasa Ranjan Behera
In the present study, breaking focused wave groups were simulated using open-source Computational Fluid Dynamics model REEF3D in order to investigate the breaking wave impact on scaled (1:10) two-dimensional coastal deck structure with girder. The effect...
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Jiawang Liu and Bin Teng
The ?ringing? response of a monopile foundation to focused wave groups was investigated in this study. Such responses are of practical interest in the context of offshore wind turbine foundations. Moderately steep transient focused wave groups were gener...
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Samarpan Chakraborty and Balakumar Balachandran
Generation and propagation of waves in a numerical wave tank constructed using Weakly Compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (WCSPH) are considered here. Numerical wave tank simulations have been carried out with implementations of different Wendla...
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Sangmin Lee and Jung-Wuk Hong
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. Howeve...
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Pál Schmitt, Christian Windt, Josh Davidson, John V. Ringwood and Trevor Whittaker
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations, based on Reynolds-Averaged Navier?Stokes (RANS) models, are a useful tool for a wide range of coastal and offshore applications, providing a high fidelity representation of the underlying hydrodynamic proce...
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Christian Windt, Josh Davidson, Pál Schmitt and John V. Ringwood
A fully non-linear numerical wave tank (NWT), based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), provides a useful tool for the analysis of coastal and offshore engineering problems. To generate and absorb free surface waves within a NWT, a variety of numerica...
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Zhengxiao Luan, Guanghua He, Zhigang Zhang, Penglin Jing, Ruijia Jin, Baolei Geng and Chaogang Liu
The utilization of ocean renewable energy, especially wave energy, is of great significance in ocean engineering. In this study, a three-dimensional numerical wave tank was established to simulate the wave-float interaction based on the Reynolds-averaged...
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Qiao-Sha Wang, Ming-Hai Li and Dai-Wei Li
The traditional small-scale marine engineering experiments that are performed under normal gravity fields always encounter one stubborn difficulty related to full-scale prototype models. However, the difficulty can be resolved by centrifuge experiments t...
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Stefano Parmeggiani, Jens Peter Kofoed and Erik Friis-Madsen
An overtopping model specifically suited for Wave Dragon is needed in order to improve the reliability of its performance estimates. The model shall be comprehensive of all relevant physical processes that affect overtopping and flexible to adapt to any ...
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Mohamad Hmedi, Emre Uzunoglu, Chen Zeng, J. F. Gaspar and C. Guedes Soares
This paper reviews experimental methods for testing floating wind turbines. The techniques covered include early-stage and up-to-date approaches such as a porous disc method and hybrid model testing. First, the challenges induced by Froude and Reynolds s...
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Marco Fontana, Giuseppe Giorgi, Massimiliano Accardi, Ermanno Giorcelli, Stefano Brizzolara and Sergej Antonello Sirigu
In this investigation, a comprehensive study was conducted on a U-shaped sloshing tank, based on reversing the classical treatment of such devices as motion stabilizers and using them instead to improve the performance of wave energy converters. The mode...
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Le Duc Quyen and Jun Myoung Choi
The presence of microplastics has been reported in most marine environments. Their accumulation can affect the marine ecosystem, and their consumption by small organisms of various sizes can indirectly affect human beings who consume them. Recent observa...
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Mohamad Hmedi, Emre Uzunoglu, Antonio Medina-Manuel, Jordi Mas-Soler, Felipe Vittori, Oscar Pires, José Azcona, Antonio Souto-Iglesias and C. Guedes Soares
This work evaluates the experimental test results regarding the operational performance of a free-float capable tension leg platform with a 10 MW wind turbine. It covers the platform dynamics in the selected installation area: Ribadeo, Spain. The model a...
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Oleksandr Kanifolskyi and Valerio Ruggiero
Usually, the need for research arises when there is a discrepancy between the theoretical and practical data. For example, the RINA (Registro Italiano Navale) Rules describe two navigation areas for yachts: unrestricted navigation and a navigation area w...
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