CCP-WSI+ Collaborative Computational Project on Wave Structure Interaction +
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Plymouth
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
The proposed new CCP-WSI+ builds on the impact generated by the Collaborative Computational Project in Wave Structure Interaction (CCP-WSI) and extends it to connect together previously separate communities in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and computational structural mechanics (CSM). The new CCP-WSI+ collaboration builds on the NWT, will accelerate the development of Fully Coupled Wave Structure Interaction (FCWSI) modelling suitable for dealing with the latest challenges in offshore and coastal engineering.
Since being established in 2015, CCP-WSI has provided strategic leadership for the WSI community, and has been successful in generating impact in: Strategy setting, Contributions to knowledge, and Strategic software development and support. The existing CCP-WSI network has identified priorities for WSI code development through industry focus group workshops; it has advanced understanding of the applicability and reliability of WSI through an internationally recognised Blind Test series; and supported collaborative code development.
Acceleration of the offshore renewable energy sector and protection of coastal communities are strategic priorities for the UK and involve complex WSI challenges. Designers need computational tools that can deal with complex environmental load conditions and complex structures with confidence in their reliability and appropriate use. Computational tools are essential for design and assessment within these priority areas and there is a need for continued support of their development, appropriate utilisation and implementation to take advantage of recent advances in HPC architecture.
Both the CFD and CSM communities have similar challenges in needing computationally efficient code development suitable for simulations of design cases of greater and greater complexity and scale. Many different codes are available commercially and are developed in academia, but there remains considerable uncertainty in the reliability of their use in different applications and of independent qualitative measures of the quality of a simulation.
One of the novelties of this CCP is that in addition to considering the interface between fluids and structures from a computational perspective, we propose to bring together the two UK expert communities who are leading developments in those respective fields. The motivation is to develop FCWSI software, which couples the best in class CFD tools with the most recent innovations in computational solid mechanics. Due to the complexity of both fields, this would not be achievable without interdisciplinary collaboration and co-design of FCWSI software.
The CCP-WSI+ will bring the CFD and CSM communities together through a series of networking events and industry workshops designed to share good practice and exchange advances across disciplines and to develop the roadmap for the next generation of FCWSI tools. Training and workshops will support the co-creation of code coupling methodologies and libraries to support the range of CFD codes used in an open source environment for community use and to aid parallel implementation. The CCP-WSI+ will carry out a software audit on WSI codes and the data repository and website will be extended and enhanced with database visualisation and archiving to allow for contributions from the expanded community. Code developments will be supported through provision and management of the code repository, user support and training in software engineering and best practice for coupling and parallelisation.
By bringing together two communities of researchers who are independently investigating new computational methods for fluids and structures, we believe we will be able to co-design the next generation of FCWSI tools with realism both in the flow physics and the structural response, and in this way, will unlock new complex applications in ocean and coastal engineering
Since being established in 2015, CCP-WSI has provided strategic leadership for the WSI community, and has been successful in generating impact in: Strategy setting, Contributions to knowledge, and Strategic software development and support. The existing CCP-WSI network has identified priorities for WSI code development through industry focus group workshops; it has advanced understanding of the applicability and reliability of WSI through an internationally recognised Blind Test series; and supported collaborative code development.
Acceleration of the offshore renewable energy sector and protection of coastal communities are strategic priorities for the UK and involve complex WSI challenges. Designers need computational tools that can deal with complex environmental load conditions and complex structures with confidence in their reliability and appropriate use. Computational tools are essential for design and assessment within these priority areas and there is a need for continued support of their development, appropriate utilisation and implementation to take advantage of recent advances in HPC architecture.
Both the CFD and CSM communities have similar challenges in needing computationally efficient code development suitable for simulations of design cases of greater and greater complexity and scale. Many different codes are available commercially and are developed in academia, but there remains considerable uncertainty in the reliability of their use in different applications and of independent qualitative measures of the quality of a simulation.
One of the novelties of this CCP is that in addition to considering the interface between fluids and structures from a computational perspective, we propose to bring together the two UK expert communities who are leading developments in those respective fields. The motivation is to develop FCWSI software, which couples the best in class CFD tools with the most recent innovations in computational solid mechanics. Due to the complexity of both fields, this would not be achievable without interdisciplinary collaboration and co-design of FCWSI software.
The CCP-WSI+ will bring the CFD and CSM communities together through a series of networking events and industry workshops designed to share good practice and exchange advances across disciplines and to develop the roadmap for the next generation of FCWSI tools. Training and workshops will support the co-creation of code coupling methodologies and libraries to support the range of CFD codes used in an open source environment for community use and to aid parallel implementation. The CCP-WSI+ will carry out a software audit on WSI codes and the data repository and website will be extended and enhanced with database visualisation and archiving to allow for contributions from the expanded community. Code developments will be supported through provision and management of the code repository, user support and training in software engineering and best practice for coupling and parallelisation.
By bringing together two communities of researchers who are independently investigating new computational methods for fluids and structures, we believe we will be able to co-design the next generation of FCWSI tools with realism both in the flow physics and the structural response, and in this way, will unlock new complex applications in ocean and coastal engineering
Planned Impact
The proposed new CCP-WSI+ builds on the experience of the existing CCP-WSI in generating significant impact in the area of Wave-Structure Interaction through a range of different pathways. Extending the CCP-WSI to include CSM and CFD academic and industry experts will create greater impact and trigger the development of codes suitable for dealing with the latest challenges in offshore and coastal engineering, addressing complex WSI cases that could not be tackled if the two communities were to remain separated.
The envisaged impact will affect a wide range of participants through the extensive project partner list already signed up to the project, and will be generated by the proposed new CCP-WSI+ in three areas.
1. The CCP-WSI+ will provide leadership and strategy setting and will connect communities to enable them to tackle FCWSI challenges together.
2. Events proposed by the CCP-WSI+ will provide participants with effective networking activities to allow development and sharing of ideas and processes for validation by laboratory measurements and other available data. The training courses and workshops will also provide the skills to develop code within the shared opensource environment; to develop new code sustainably (software engineered and quality assured); to validate and present data to accepted standards; to validate and release new codes in wave structure interaction. The CCP-WSI+ focus group and road mapping exercise will provide a framework for innovation and the development of strategic software for WSI applications.
3. Dissemination of the research findings to potential end-users will be achieved through active participation in the CCP-WSI+ events and through publications in leading refereed international journals and conference proceedings related to the field. These will include journals and conferences specialising in high performance computing as well as mainstream fluid mechanics and structural mechanics journals.
4. Pathways to maximising the influence of the codes for WSI and maintaining software sustainability will be achieved through community code developments and CoSeC support for code coupling and parallelisation. The existing web site, data and code repository for CCP-WSI will be enhanced by adding new materials to include recent developments of CFD and CSM and code coupling, open source codes and information on workshop events for further code developments as well as for sharing and dissemination of research outcomes. Dissemination and promotion of the CCP-WSI+ to the wider community will be achieved through school workshops and public events.
5. The skills of professionals who attend the training courses, workshops, hackathons, blind tests and other proposed events by the network will be improved, both in development, use and exploitation of the software. Thus, the companies in relevant sectors will have better opportunities to employ suitably skilled professionals to tackle the challenges they face in engineering practice.
The envisaged impact will affect a wide range of participants through the extensive project partner list already signed up to the project, and will be generated by the proposed new CCP-WSI+ in three areas.
1. The CCP-WSI+ will provide leadership and strategy setting and will connect communities to enable them to tackle FCWSI challenges together.
2. Events proposed by the CCP-WSI+ will provide participants with effective networking activities to allow development and sharing of ideas and processes for validation by laboratory measurements and other available data. The training courses and workshops will also provide the skills to develop code within the shared opensource environment; to develop new code sustainably (software engineered and quality assured); to validate and present data to accepted standards; to validate and release new codes in wave structure interaction. The CCP-WSI+ focus group and road mapping exercise will provide a framework for innovation and the development of strategic software for WSI applications.
3. Dissemination of the research findings to potential end-users will be achieved through active participation in the CCP-WSI+ events and through publications in leading refereed international journals and conference proceedings related to the field. These will include journals and conferences specialising in high performance computing as well as mainstream fluid mechanics and structural mechanics journals.
4. Pathways to maximising the influence of the codes for WSI and maintaining software sustainability will be achieved through community code developments and CoSeC support for code coupling and parallelisation. The existing web site, data and code repository for CCP-WSI will be enhanced by adding new materials to include recent developments of CFD and CSM and code coupling, open source codes and information on workshop events for further code developments as well as for sharing and dissemination of research outcomes. Dissemination and promotion of the CCP-WSI+ to the wider community will be achieved through school workshops and public events.
5. The skills of professionals who attend the training courses, workshops, hackathons, blind tests and other proposed events by the network will be improved, both in development, use and exploitation of the software. Thus, the companies in relevant sectors will have better opportunities to employ suitably skilled professionals to tackle the challenges they face in engineering practice.
Organisations
- University of Plymouth, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Itasca Consultants GmbH (Project Partner)
- Brunel University, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Vigo, Spain (Project Partner)
- Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain (Project Partner)
- Aalborg University, Denmark (Project Partner)
- Southern University of Chile (Project Partner)
- University College Dublin, Ireland (Project Partner)
- Lloyd's Register EMEA, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- NAFEMS Ltd (Project Partner)
- Budapest University of Technology, Hungary (Project Partner)
- Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- MeyGen Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland (Project Partner)
- Sichuan University, China (Project Partner)
- Dalian University of Technology, China (Project Partner)
- Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (Project Partner)
- Wave Venture Ltd (Project Partner)
- University of Leuven (Project Partner)
- Carnegie Clean Energy (Project Partner)
- University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Airbus Operations Limited, Bristol (Project Partner)
- UK Association for Computational Mechani (Project Partner)
- DNV GL Energy (Project Partner)
- CICESE (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- JBA Consulting, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Kyoto University, Japan (Project Partner)
- University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States (Project Partner)
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (Project Partner)
- Ramboll Group (Project Partner)
- Swansea University, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Cantabria, Spain (Project Partner)
- ESI Group (UK) (Project Partner)
- Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (Project Partner)
- General Lighthouse Authorities (Project Partner)
- Cranfield University, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Western Australia, Australia (Project Partner)
Publications
Arregui-Mena JD
(2022)
Microstructural characterization data of as received IG-110, 2114 and ETU-10 nuclear graphite grades and oxidation characterization data of IG-110.
in Data in brief
Arregui-Mena JD
(2023)
SEM and TEM data of nuclear graphite and glassy carbon microstructures.
in Data in brief
Bingham H
(2021)
Ocean Energy Systems Wave Energy Modeling Task 10.4: Numerical Modeling of a Fixed Oscillating Water Column
in Energies
Brown S
(2022)
Investigation of wave-driven hydroelastic interactions using numerical and physical modelling approaches
in Applied Ocean Research
Brown S
(2021)
Assessing focused wave impacts on floating wave energy converters using OpenFOAM
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering and Computational Mechanics
Charlton T
(2022)
Geotechnical fragility analysis of monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines in extreme storms
in Renewable Energy
De La Torre O
(2022)
Effect of the Current-Wave Angle on the Local Scour Around Circular Piles
in Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Ding H
(2023)
Optimization of the Hydrodynamic Performance of a Wave Energy Converter in an Integrated Cylindrical Wave Energy Converter-Type Breakwater System
in Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering
Feichtner A
(2021)
Comparison of Macro-Scale Porosity Implementations for CFD Modelling of Wave Interaction with Thin Porous Structures
in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Feichtner A
(2020)
Using a porous-media approach for CFD modelling of wave interaction with thin perforated structures
in Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy
| Description | Coupling Wind and Stress Models for a Wind Turbine Blade, Europe Network Fund |
| Amount | £8,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 14th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Plymouth, UK. CCP-WSI Working Group members attended, presented and were involved in the organisation/delivery of the international event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | 6th Airbus/Ariane Sloshing and Ditching Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 6th Airbus/Ariane Sloshing and Ditching Symposium. CCP-WSI representatives attended/participated in this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 8th PRIMaRE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8th PRIMaRE Conference, host by Bangor University (online). CCP-WSI representatives presented and participated at the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Code Developers' Workshop 2. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI Code Developers' Workshop 2. CCP-WSI Organised engagement event, held online over 2 days. 17 invited speakers from all over the world presenting/discussing state-of-the-art research activity under the themes of Code Coupling and Multi-physics Simulation, Improving speed/efficiency and exploiting emerging HPC architectures, and Modelling Large Deformations of Complex Material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CCP-WSI Showcase Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CCP-WSI Showcase Event (special session at ISOPE 2021, Rhodes, Greece (online/virtual)). CCP-WSI community members contributed 9 papers to the conference's technical program and presented state-of-the-art WSI research in two sessions of the international conference (chaired by CCP-WSI Working Group members) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Code Coupling Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Code Coupling Workshop - CCP-WSI promoted training workshop on general-purpose code coupling delivered online, over two days, by COSEC representatives. ~60 registrations and ~30 attendees. Generally positive feedback |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ICE Publishing Awards 2021: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ICE Publishing Awards 2021: CCP-WSI members awarded the Baker Medal (for third best paper overall) for the paper "Modelling of focused wave interaction with wave energy converter models using qaleFOAM", part of the themed issue on the CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The 16th OpenFOAM Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 16th OpenFOAM Workshop (held fully online) hosted by University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. The CCP-WSI was presented and CCP-WSI representatives attended/participated in the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop. Members of the CCP-WSI Working group presented at the 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop which aims to help beginners start using OpenFOAM and enable experienced users to collaborate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |