Abstract

A compressible multiphase flow solver twoPhaseEulerFoam was used to simulate breaking wave impact on a vertical wall. It is one of the component solvers included in the open-source CFD library OpenFOAM. Both air and water-air mixture are treated as compressible fluids, whilst the free surface is handled by a volume of fluid (VOF) method with bounded compression techniques. The unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (BANS) equations are solved by a pressure-based method PIMPLE to couple the pressure and velocity fields. With suitable predefined initial conditions, different types of wave impact on a vertical wall have been produced. The results for pressure distribution and velocity field near the impact area have been analyzed.

Keywords:
upstream oil & gas, maximum impact pressure, us government, simulation, different type, twophaseeulerfoam, air pocket, equation, peak time, impact area
Subjects:
Information Management and Systems
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2015. International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers
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