Wave impacts on a solid deck in transient wave groups

Wang, H.; Santo, H.; Taylor, Paul H.; Dai, Saishuai; Day, Sandy; Chan, Eng Soon

doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2022.103755

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“…The interface between air and water, the free-surface, is tracked using a modified volume of fluid approach. Following the mesh independence study of Wang et al (2022), the mesh sizes for proper wave generation and propagation are chosen to yield ~550 cells per peak wavelength streamwise and ~200 cells per nominal wave height vertically. The transverse mesh size is chosen to have ~730 cells per peak wavelength.…”

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Experimental and Numerical Study on Oblique Wave-in-Deck Loads

Wang,

Santo

2023

Int. Conf. Coastal. Eng.

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Most studies on wave-in-deck loads focus on head-on wave impingement whereas wave-in-deck loads due to waves incident from oblique directions are rarely reported. Numerical simulations for oblique wave-in-deck loads were presented in Iwanowski et al. (2002), Brodtkorb (2008) and Chen et al. (2018). However, in these studies, only numerical validations were performed against either two-dimensional experiments or empirical formulations due to a lack of experimental results. In light of this, we present the experimental results for wave impacts on a solid deck model due to a transient focused wave group incident from oblique direction in this study. The oblique experimental data is compared with the head-on counterpart by Santo et al, (2020) to investigate the incident wave angle effect on wave-in-deck loads. Numerical simulations are carried out to reproduce both the head-on and oblique wave-in-deck experiments using a three-dimensional (3D) numerical wave tank (NWT), and flow field information is interrogated to derive physical insights into complex wave-deck interactions. The solid deck model is a representative of a typical 2nd generation North Sea topside structures commonly exposed to severe winter weather. The configuration is also applicable to coastal structures such as bridges, piers, jetties or docks.

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