In high sea states, offshore structures may suffer from extreme wave impact loads, which can result in serious local structural damage. It is still a great challenge for offshore designers to accurately predict wave impact loads. In this study, a coupled potential-viscous flow method is applied to simulate focused wave interaction with a fixed vertical cylinder. In the present method, an in-house computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code is coupled with a potential wave generation library MrNWB (Mooring/riser Numerical Wave Basin) based on Euler Overlay Method (EOM). Free surface elevation and dynamic pressure on the cylinder are calculated and discussed. The results of the present method are compared with the data of a benchmark model test. Comparisons show that the coupled potential-viscous flow method has reasonably good accuracy in predicting free surface elevation and dynamic pressure on cylindrical structures.
Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
March 2021
Journal Paper|
March 01 2021
Numerical Simulation of Focused Wave Interaction with a Fixed Vertical Cylinder
Kangping Liao;
Kangping Liao
Harbin Engineering University
Search for other works by this author on:
Ronggui Han;
Ronggui Han
Yantai CIMC RAFFLES Offshore Limited
Search for other works by this author on:
Zhitao Zhai
Zhitao Zhai
Harbin Engineering University
Search for other works by this author on:
Int. J. Offshore Polar Eng. 31 (01): 112–120.
Paper Number:
IJOPE-21-31-1-112
Article history
Received:
September 14 2020
Accepted:
February 09 2021
Published Online:
March 01 2021
Citation
Liao, Kangping, Wang, Qiang, Ma, Qingwei, Duan, Wenyang, Li, Lei, Han, Ronggui, and Zhitao Zhai. "Numerical Simulation of Focused Wave Interaction with a Fixed Vertical Cylinder." Int. J. Offshore Polar Eng. 31 (2021): 112–120. doi: https://doi.org/10.17736/ijope.2021.jc814
Download citation file:
Sign in
Don't already have an account? Register
Personal Account
You could not be signed in. Please check your username and password and try again.
Could not validate captcha. Please try again.
Pay-Per-View Access
$20.00
Advertisement
Cited By
Email Alerts
Advertisement
Suggested Reading
CFD Study for Steep Focused Wave Interactions with Fixed and Moving Cylinders
Int. J. Offshore Polar Eng. (March,2021)
Numerical Study on Interaction of Focused Waves with a Fixed Vertical Cylinder by HOBEM
Int. J. Offshore Polar Eng. (March,2021)
Advertisement