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Mengyu Li, Xizeng Zhao, Mingjian Yin, Yiyang Zong, Jinyou Lu, Shiming Yao, Geng Qu and Hualong Luan
The interaction between solitary waves and underwater barriers is investigated using our in-house code, entitled VPM (volume-average/point-value multi-moment)?THINC/QQ (THINC method with quadratic surface representation and Gaussian quadrature)-coupled m...
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Zhiying Yang, Hao Ding, Ke Li, Liang Cheng, Bo Huang and Qingyang Ren
Large quasi-elliptical cylinders are extensively used in ocean engineering. To enhance a better understanding of the hydrodynamic wave force on such quasi-elliptical cylinders during extreme events, a series of experiments on extreme wave interaction wit...
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Qingze Gao, Lifei Song and Jianxi Yao
The wave-induced motions, and steady wave forces and moments for the oil tanker KVLCC2 in regular head and oblique waves are numerically predicted by using the expanded RANS solver based on OpenFOAM. New modules of wave boundary condition are programed i...
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Mauro Bonfanti, Andrew Hillis, Sergej Antonello Sirigu, Panagiotis Dafnakis, Giovanni Bracco, Giuliana Mattiazzo and Andrew Plummer
Optimal control strategies represent a widespread solution to increase the extracted energy of a Wave Energy Converter (WEC). The aim is to bring the WEC into resonance enhancing the produced power without compromising its reliability and durability. Mos...
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Jorge Molines, Arnau Bayón, M. Esther Gómez-Martín and Josep R. Medina
The influence of parapets on crown walls of mound breakwaters on wave forces has not been extensively analyzed in the literature. In this study, numerical experiments were carried out using the open-source platform OpenFOAM® to evaluate the influence of ...
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Qinghe Fang, Can Yang and Anxin Guo
Submerged horizontal plates are widely employed in research of wave structure interaction as a simplification of coastal and ocean engineering structures. The hydrodynamic performance of submerged horizontal plates under focused waves has been seldom rep...
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Mariano Buccino, Davide Banfi, Diego Vicinanza, Mario Calabrese, Giuseppe Del Giudice and Armando Carravetta
The Seawave Slotcone Generator (WAVEnergy SAS, 2003) is a wave energy converter based on the overtopping principle. Although it has been effectively researched during the last decade, no design tool has been supplied to estimate the hydrodynamic loads th...
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Hung-Chu Hsu, Yang-Yih Chen, Yi-Ru Chen and Meng-Syue Li
In order to understand the extreme wave acting on the vertical breakwater, a series of experiments were constructed in the wave tank to measure the variations of pressure on the front, rear faces, and below the caisson due to overtopping waves. The front...
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Jie Dong, Leiping Xue, Kaiyu Cheng, Jian Shi and Chi Zhang
We experimentally investigated the forces induced by monochromatic and solitary waves on a submerged horizontal plate in a wave flume. The experimental results of two-dimensional wave forces on the plate over a 1:10 simple slope and a flat bottom are pre...
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Minglong Lu, Shaopeng Li and Teng Wu
The extreme shallow-water waves during a tropical cyclone are often simplified to solitary waves. Considering the lack of simulation tools to effectively and efficiently forecast wave forces on coastal box-girder bridges during tropical cyclones, this st...
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Xiaofei Cheng, Shimin Li and Gang Wang
In this paper, a yacht project in Tingjiang Town, Mawei, Fujian, is suggested as an example of a barge type breakwater made out of scrap barges. The physical modelling of a two-dimensional flume wave test was carried out on a barge-type breakwater, focus...
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Yang Song, Jingtao Jia, Haibin Liu, Fang Chen and Qinghe Fang
Many coastal bridges have been destroyed or damaged by tsunami waves. Some studies have been conducted to investigate wave impact on bridge decks, but there is little concerning the effect of bridge superelevation. A three-dimensional (3D) dam break wave...
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Junliang Gao, Shukai Gong, Zhiwei He, Huabin Shi, Jun Zang, Tao Zou and Xu Bai
Fluid resonance may occur in a narrow gap between two side-by-side vessels under wave actions, which can cause significant wave height amplification inside the gap and further induce large wave loads and motion responses of the vessel. Based on an open-s...
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Ji-Kang Chen, Guo-Dong Zhang and Wen-Yang Duan
Maritime traffic has increased considerably in recent years, making energy efficiency and navigation safety of ships more crucial than ever. Hence, a two-time scale model based on the Taylor expansion boundary element method (TEBEM) is proposed to predic...
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Guanghua He, Hongfei Xie, Zhigang Zhang and Shuang Liu
A numerical model is developed to investigate the hydrodynamic characteristics of a moving submarine induced by internal solitary waves (ISWs) in continuously stratified fluids. A new numerical scheme for the generation of ISWs with a current is proposed...
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Jianting Guo, Yongbin Zhang, Xiangqian Bian and Sheng Xu
As the technical and theoretical research of floating breakwaters is becoming increasingly mature, the floating breakwaters are now being utilized, especially in offshore reefs. Therefore, it is of practical significance to study the hydrodynamic perform...
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Jingyuan Li, Qinghe Zhang and Tongqing Chen
A numerical model of internal solitary waves in continuously stratified fluids is developed by introducing a density transport equation to the three-dimensional Navier?Stokes equation and adopting the fully nonlinear models of the Dubreil-Jacotin-Long eq...
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Zhenyu Liu, Zhen Guo, Yuzhe Dou and Fanyu Zeng
Most offshore wind turbines are installed in shallow water and exposed to breaking waves. Previous numerical studies focusing on breaking wave forces generally ignored the seabed permeability. In this paper, a numerical model based on Volume-Averaged Rey...
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Lei Tan, Tomoki Ikoma, Yasuhiro Aida and Koichi Masuda
Barge-type platforms with moonpools are a promising type of foundation for floating offshore wind turbines due to their good seakeeping performance. In this paper, the mean wave drift force on a barge-type vertical-axis floating wind turbine with multipl...
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Jinsheng Wang, Shihao Xue and Guoji Xu
To facilitate the establishment of the probabilistic model for quantifying the vulnerability of coastal bridges to natural hazards and support the associated risk assessment and mitigation activities, it is imperative to develop an accurate and efficient...
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