A Zonal CFD Approach for Fully Nonlinear Simulations of Two Vessels in Launch and Recovery Operations

Lead Research Organisation: City, University of London
Department Name: Sch of Engineering and Mathematical Sci

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Publications

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Bihnam M. (2017) Numerical investigation on effects of compressibility on water entry problems in Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

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Hu Z (2020) Investigation of interaction between extreme waves and a moored FPSO using FNPT and CFD solvers in Ocean Engineering

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Li Q. (2018) Numerical simulation of focusing wave interaction with FPSO-like structure using FNPT-NS Solver in Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

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Li Q. (2017) Vortex shedding behavior of a horizontal circular cylinder near the free surface with different submerged depths in Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

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Li Q. (2018) A zonal hybrid approach coupling FNPT with OpenFOAM for modelling wave-structure interactions with action of current in Ocean Systems Engineering

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Li Y (2021) Numerical Simulation of Interaction Between Focusing Waves and Cylinder Using qaleFOAM in International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering

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Ma Q (2016) A review on approaches to solving Poisson's equation in projection-based meshless methods for modelling strongly nonlinear water waves in Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy

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Wang J (2018) Numerical study on the quantitative error of the Korteweg-de Vries equation for modelling random waves on large scale in shallow water in European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids

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Wang J (2016) Numerical Investigation on Spectrum Evolution of Narrow-Banded Random Waves in Shallow Water Based on KdV and Fully Nonlinear Model

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Wang J (2018) Deterministic numerical modelling of three-dimensional rogue waves on large scale with presence of wind in Procedia IUTAM

 
Description (1) an effective self-adaptive wavemaker technology for 2D and 3D wave modelling; (2) a hybrid model coupling the fully nonlinear potential theory with OpenFOAM; (3) A software package for 3D wave modelling has been built and shared in the wave-structure interaction community; (4) by using the developed technologies, to carry out numerical investigation on two floating bodies in close proximity.
Exploitation Route The development will be merged with other development done by the partners, who jointly applied this project. A open-source software is ready to be released. The end users can have easy access.
Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Energy,Environment,Transport
URL https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/coast-engineering-research-group/lr-nil-a-zonal-cfd-approach-for-fully-nonlinear-simulations-of-two-vessels-in-launch-and-recovery-operations
 
Description The hybrid model developed in this project contributes to the hybrid modelling suite, qaleFOAM, developed at the City, University of London, consisting of multiple fluid and structural mechanics solvers. In the qaleFOAM, the fluid (water and air) near the wind turbines can be modelled using the Navier-Stokes single/two- phase solvers using OpenFOAM with various options of turbulence modelling for both RANS and Large Eddy Simulation, the wave can be simulated using a full spectrum of wave models ranging from linear to fully nonlinear solvers, the blade, tower and foundation can be modelled using rigid body or linear elastic structural solver. Reduced-order models, e.g. ALM and BEM, are also available for modelling the turbine dynamics. Different coupling approaches using the time-splitting (TS), space-splitting (SS) and functional splitting (FS) strategies have been developed and incorporated in the qaleFOAM, allowing different hybrid solvers to be tailored for monolithic or partitioned fluid-structure coupling. By minimising the spatial/temporal domain for high-fidelity and time-consuming solver (the rest will be modelled by faster solvers) whilst maintaining the required degree of accuracy, the qaleFOAM has demonstrated its promising computational robustness in numerical comparative studies (e.g. Venkatachalam et al., 2021) or blind tests (Ransley et al., 2020) for highly nonlinear wave-structure interactions. The code is now released as an open source package through CCP-WSI code repository (https://www.ccp-wsi.ac.uk/code_repository/clearing_house) in github. It receives some industrial interest. Further work with industry partners in the offshore renewables is underway.
First Year Of Impact 2020
Sector Energy
Impact Types Economic
 
Title qaleFoam 
Description A computer code to couple the QALE-FEM with OpenFOAM, qaleFOAM, has been developed and used by academic partners 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact We are working on the release of the software as open-source code. the impact will be measured using the number of downloads. Specific impact case study is planned as well.