Free-surface flow simulations for moored and floating offshore platforms

AEP Veldman, R Luppes, P van der Plas, HJL van der Heiden, Bulent Duz, H. Seubers, J. Helder, T Bunnik, Rene Huijsmans

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Abstract

During the development of the ComFLOW simulation method many challenges have to be tackled concerning the flow modelling and the numerical solution algorithm. Examples hereof are wave propagation, absorbing boundary conditions, fluid–solid body interaction, turbulence modeling and numerical efficiency. Some of these challenges will be discussed in the paper, in particular the design of absorbing boundary conditions and the numerical coupling for fluid–solid body interaction. As a demonstration of the progress made, a number of simulation results for engineering applications from the offshore industry will be presented: a wave-making oscillating buoy, a free-fall life boat dropping into wavy water, and wave impact against a semi-submersible offshore platform. For those applications, MARIN has carried out several validation experiments.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationECCOMAS Congress 2016
EditorsM. Papadrakakis, V. Papadopoulos, G. Stefanou, V. Plevris
PublisherNational Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Pages7515-7531
ISBN (Print)978-618-82844-0-1
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering - Crete, Greece
Duration: 5 Jun 201610 Jun 2016
Conference number: 7
https://www.eccomas2016.org/

Conference

Conference7th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering
Abbreviated titleECCOMAS Congress 2016
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityCrete
Period5/06/1610/06/16
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Keywords

  • Extreme waves
  • fluid–solid body interaction
  • CFD
  • local grid refinement
  • experimental validation

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