... ABSTRACT A coupling hydrodynamic model of SWATH and reef topography was established based on the conventional potential flow theory and the incident wave force, diffraction force, radiation hydrodynamic coefficients motions of SWATH were calculated. The model was compared with the same SWATH...

... sustainable development vawt platform coefficient aerodynamic performance load characteristic numerical model wave length equation torque coefficient aero-hydrodynamic performance coupling wave height potential flow theory axis turbine wind turbine engineering wind-wave coupling mesh...

... generated by the forced motion of a rigid body. The other one is the wave generated by the deformation of a constantly deforming body. In both cases, water elevation data recorded by the wave probes installed near the body are compared with analytical solution obtained using potential flow theory. KEY WORDS...

... of wave, ship and internal liquid is decomposed into the ship–wave interaction problem and the compartment sloshing problem which are independently solved using the potential flow theory and the viscous flow theory, respectively. A database of wave load and sloshing load in a wide range of working...

... are optimized. After that, taking the fluid viscosity into consideration, the heave motions of different cylinders with various sizes are investigated via the optimized models. Meanwhile, the equation of wave-cylinder coupling movement is established based on the potential flow theory and linear gravity water...

..., viscous (CFD) or inviscid (BEM) numerical simulations and physical experiment. For the semianalytical solutions, the domain decomposition based on the linear potential flow theory is always carried out to study the natural frequency and mode shape inside a moonpool. (Faltinsen et al., 2007; Faltinsen...

.... In this paper, a panel method based on three dimensional potential flow theory is used to study the problem of wave added resistance. The time-domain motion responses of Wigely-III ship and S175 container ship in head waves are calculated by AQWA, and then the wave added resistances of two ships are obtained...

... the NWT is equipped with wave forcing technique. Further, WEC-rotor based on prototype scale is assessed along with the potential flow theory for without and with power take-off (PTO) damping moment. Better performance of WEC-rotor can be obtained when the nonlinear analysis is considered. INTRODUCTION...

... that the highorder wave forces calculated in AQWA are at a peak concussion, which shows that RANS method needs more inner iteration steps or other temporal discretization scheme to reduce the numerical dissipation at the abnormal moments, and for the traditional potential flow theory and boundary element method (BEM...

... mentioned above are mainly based on the potential-flow theory. The conventional potential theory tends to over-predict the resonant wave elevations in the narrow gaps and causes the over-estimation of the wave excitation loads on the floating structures due to the neglect of fluid viscosity and energy...

... on linear potential flow theory. The hydrodynamic performance (including interaction factor, wave exciting force and heave response) of the WEC array with the rear pontoon is investigated with focus on the influence of the spacing between the WEC array and the pontoon (WEC-pontoon spacing). For sake...

... dynamic response equation element local coordinate system global coordinate system wave action local coordinate system wind force dynamic analysis wind load artificial intelligence engineering bridge tower potential flow theory displacement wave force coordinate system frequency...

... image processing and Fourier/spectral analysis. An analytical model, based on linearized potential flow theory, is described and its predictions are compared with experimental RAOs, with good agreement. Comparisons are also presented with results from a fully nonlinear CFD code with VOF tracking...

... is introduced to deal with the measured forces acting on moving vessels. The comparisons of the present results and that of potential flow theories and experimental data are conducted. They are all in good agreements. INTRODUCTION Accurate evaluation of ship hydrodynamic coefficients on radiation problems...

... extensively studied in the last few decades. Many researchers expend effort to obtain the solution analytically based on potential flow theory, but a theoretical analysis is not valid for viscous and turbulent flow and the overturning and breaking waves during violent sloshing can not be described. Physical...

... based on a fully non-linear potential flow theory, the second one, solving RANSE equations, simulating a viscous flow around the structure. Comparisons between the results of these three different approaches are given. INTRODUCTION The pile supported breakwater under investigation was introduced some...

... nonlin- ear transient waves in a two dimensional wave tank using the finite element method based on a formulation presented by Wu and Eatock Taylor (1994a, 1994b). Potential flow theory is ap- plied and the Laplace equation is solved as a boundary value problem with a nonlinear free surface boundary...

... of linear springs. Hydrodynamic pressure acting on the floating structure is obtained in closed form on the basis of a linear potential flow theory. Response quantities are evaluated by a wet mode superposition approach and stationary random vibration theory. Based on the numerical results, the dynamic...

... the effects of the energy dissipation, or could not consider theoretically and rigorously the effects of the cross section of the cylinders. kojima incident angle vertical cylinder potential flow theory transmission coefficient separation expansion coefficient reflection coefficient cylinder...