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Slow drift dam** force acting on a horizontal cylinder
The hydrodynamic forces acting on a circular cylinder and a rectangular cylinder undergoing slow drift oscillation in regular waves were investigated experimentally and numerically. Forced oscillation tests wi...
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A pseudofield model approach to simulate compartment-fire phenomena for marine fire safety design
In order to prevent the spread of marine compartment fires, it is necessary to understand the governing factors or characteristics of fire-spread phenomena. We present a pseudofield model approach to this prob...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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Numerical simulation and experiment on dam break problem
In this paper, two novel numerical computation methods are introduced which have been recently developed at Research Institute for Applied Mechanics ( RIAM ), Kyushu University, for strongly nonlinear wave-bod...
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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 of an elastic wedge water entry by a coupled FDM-FEM method
Hydroelastic behavior of an elastic wedge impacting on calm water surface was investigated. A partitioned approach by coupling finite difference method (FDM) and finite element method (FEM) was developed to an...
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Knowledge-Domain Semantic Searching and Recommendation Based on Improved Ant Colony Algorithm
To obtain accurate search results and advocate the use of human effort in discovering knowledge, we propose a method based on Ant Colony Algorithm (ACA). The proposed method simulates the behavior of ants sear...
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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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Elucidating the Role of Interfacial Tension for Hydrological Properties of Two-Phase Flow in Natural Sandstone by an Improved Lattice Boltzmann Method
We investigated the interfacial tension (IFT) effect on fluid flow characteristics inside micro-scale, porous media by a highly efficient multi-phase lattice Boltzmann method using a graphics processing unit. ...
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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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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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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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Erratum to: Motion response prediction by hybrid panel-stick models for a semi-submersible with bracings
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Open AccessAn HDR imaging method with DTDI technology for push-broom cameras
Conventionally, high dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is based on taking two or more pictures of the same scene with different exposure. However, due to a high-speed relative motion between the camera and the scene...
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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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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) ...
