22 Result(s)
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An experimental study of surface wave effects on two interacting tidal turbines
The development of tidal turbine farms desires an understanding of the effects of free-surface waves and turbine interactions. The objective of this paper is to investigate surface wave effects on the performa...
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Lattice Boltzmann simulations for multiple tidal turbines using actuator line model
In numerical simulations of tidal current farms, large-scale computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations with a high-resolution grid are required to calculate the interactions between tidal turbines. In this...
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Numerical simulation of dam break flow impact on vertical cylinder by cumulant lattice Boltzmann method
The purpose of this study is to apply the cumulant lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to simulate high Reynolds number free surface flows. The single-phase cumulant LBM is extended to solve the free surface flows ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Simulation and Analysis of Breaking Wave in Deep Water
Breaking wave has often been observed in ocean, the violent mixture of gas and water creates numerous bubbles and droplets in different scales. The generation of two-phase turbulence during breaking process ac...
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Integration of a semisubmersible floating wind turbine and wave energy converters: an experimental study on motion reduction
The integration of wave energy converters and a floating wind turbine has the potential to reduce the cost of energy, since they can share the mooring system and the infrastructure of the power grid. In this s...
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An unstructured mesh method for numerical simulation of violent sloshing flows
An unstructured mesh Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) solver has been developed for numerical simulation of violent sloshing flows inside a tank with complicated inner structures. The numerical solver em...
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CFD simulation of tidal current farm by using AL model
In this study, an efficient numerical method for predicting the wake interference of multiple turbines is presented. The actuator line (AL) model instead of the geometry-resolved method is adopted to represent...
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Numerical and experimental investigation of three-dimensionality in the dam-break flow against a vertical wall
The three-dimensionality extent of the dam break flow over a vertical wall is investigated numerically and experimentally in this paper. The numerical method is based on Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) ...
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Simulation of violent free surface flow by AMR method
A novel CFD approach based on adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique is being developed for numerical simulation of violent free surface flows. CIP method is applied to the flow solver and tangent of hyperbo...
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Erratum to: Motion response prediction by hybrid panel-stick models for a semi-submersible with bracings
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Development of Cartesian grid method for simulation of violent ship-wave interactions
We present a Cartesian grid method for numerical simulation of strongly nonlinear phenomena of ship-wave interactions. The Constraint Interpolation Profile (CIP) method is applied to the flow solver, which can...
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Motion response prediction by hybrid panel-stick models for a semi-submersible with bracings
A diffraction-radiation analysis is usually required when the hydrodynamic interactions between structural members occur in short waves. For bracings or small cylindrical members, which play important roles in...
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Experimental study on water entry of circular cylinders with inclined angles
A series of experimental studies have been carried out on water entry of three-dimensional circular cylinders for low Froude numbers. In our previous paper (Wei and Hu J Mar Sci Technol, 1:1–13, 2014), the result...
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An experimental study on water entry of horizontal cylinders
Complex hydrodynamics of a circular cylinder entering into water horizontally for low Froude numbers is experimentally studied. A high-speed digital video camera system is used to record the water entry proces...
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The plunging cavities formed by the im**ed jet after the entry of a sphere into water
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A coupled FDM–FEM method for free surface flow interaction with thin elastic plate
A partitioned approach by the coupling finite difference method (FDM) and the finite element method (FEM) is developed for simulating the interaction between free surface flow and a thin elastic plate. The FDM...
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Two-dimensional numerical simulation and experiment on strongly nonlinear wave–body interactions
A constrained interpolation profile (CIP)-based Cartesian grid method for strongly nonlinear wave–body interaction problems is presented and validated by a newly designed experiment, which is performed in a tw...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A CFD Approach for Extremely Nonlinear Wave-Body Interactions: Development and Validation
A CFD approach for extremely nonlinear free surface problems is described. The algorithm is based on the CIP method and the multi-phase computations on wave-body interactions are carried out on a Cartesian gri...
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Numerical simulation of violent sloshing by a CIP-based method
In this article, a new computational fluid dynamics simulation approach based on the constraint interpolation profile (CIP) method is applied to tackle the violent sloshing problem. The present study considers...
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A CIP-based method for numerical simulations of violent free-surface flows
A CFD model is proposed for numerical simulations of extremely nonlinear free-surface flows such as wave impact phenomena and violent wave–body interactions. The constrained interpolation profile (CIP) method ...
