Time-Domain Simulation of Second-Order Wave Diffraction in Irregular Wave

Author(s):  
Gang Xu ◽  
A. M. S. Hamouda

A time-domain second-order method is presented to simulate three-dimensional (3D) wave-body interaction. In the approach, Taylor series expansions are applied to the free surface boundary conditions, and Stokes perturbation procedure is then used to establish corresponding boundary value problem at first-order and second-order on the time-independent surfaces. A Boundary Element Method (BEM), based on Rankine source, is used to calculate wave field at each time step. Multi-Transmitting Formula coupled with Damping Zone method (MTF+DZ) is employed as radiation condition to minimize the wave reflection. A stable Integral form of Free surface Boundary Condition (IFBC) is used to update velocity potential on the free surface. The present method is applied to compute the second-order Stokes wave diffraction of bottom-mounted circular cylinder first, and then to compute the irregular second-order Stokes wave diffraction of truncated cylinder in infinite water depth with three wave components. It is shown that long time simulation can be done with stability, and the model can be used to time-domain simulation of nonlinear irregular wave-body interaction.

Author(s):  
Michael Binsar Lubis ◽  
Sverre Haver ◽  
Jørgen Amdahl

This paper reviews the significance of applying second-order irregular waves for assessing hydrodynamic loads on a jack-up platform. The study is based on a realistic jack-up model. The wave load is determined utilizing Morison equation. The study focuses on extreme wave elevations when the drag load component dominates and the magnitude of wave particle horizontal velocity is crucial. Both extreme surface elevation and wave particle kinematics are observed. For wave particle kinematic, two different stretching methods are compared. The static response of a pile structure using the second-order model and the 5th Stokes wave are compared. In the end, a dynamic analysis of the jack-up utilizing a second-order irregular wave model is performed.


Author(s):  
M. D. Yang ◽  
B. Teng

A time-domain simulation method is developed for the coupled dynamic analysis of a spar platform with mooring lines. For the hydrodynamic loads, a time domain second order method is developed. In this approach, Taylor series expansions are applied to the body surface boundary condition and the free surface boundary condition, and Stokes perturbation procedure is then used to establish corresponding boundary value problems with time-independent boundaries. A higher order boundary element method is developed to calculate the velocity potential of the resulting flow field at each time step. The free-surface boundary condition is satisfied to the second order by 4th order Adams-Bashforth-Moultn method. An artificial damping layer is adopted on the free surface to avoid the wave reflection. For the mooring-line dynamics, a geometrically nonlinear finite element method using isoparametric cable element based on the total Lagrangian formulation is developed. In the coupled dynamic analysis, the motion equation for the hull and dynamic equations for mooring lines are solved simultaneously using Newmark method. Numerical results including motions and tensions in the mooring lines are presented.


2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (02) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xinshu Zhang ◽  
Piotr Bandyk ◽  
Robert F. Beck

Large-amplitude, time-domain, wave-body interactions are studied in this paper for problems with forward speed. Both two-dimensional strip theory and three-dimensional computation methods are shown and compared by a number of numerical simulations. In the present approach, an exact body boundary condition and linearized free surface boundary conditions are used. By distributing desingularized sources above the calm water surface and using constant-strength flat panels on the exact body surface, the boundary integral equations are solved numerically at each time step. The strip theory method implements Radial Basis Functions to approximate the longitudinal derivatives of the velocity potential on the body. Once the fluid velocities on the free surface are computed, the free surface elevation and potential are updated by integrating the free surface boundary conditions. After each time step, the body surface and free surface are regrided due to the instantaneous changing wetted body geometry. Extensive results are presented to validate the efficiency of the present methods. These results include the added mass and damping computations for a Wigley III hull and an S-175 hull with forward speed using both two-dimensional and three-dimensional approaches. Exciting forces acting on a Wigley III hull due to regular head seas are obtained and compared using both the fully three-dimensional method and the two-dimensional strip theory. All the computational results are compared with experiments or other numerical solutions.


1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (01) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Isaacson ◽  
Joseph Y. T. Ng

This paper presents a time-domain second-order method to study the nonlinear wave radiation problem in two dimensions. A time-stepping scheme is adopted to obtain the resulting flow development which satisfies the nonlinear free-surface boundary conditions and the radiation condition to second order, and the numerical procedure utilizes a boundary integral equation method based on Green's theorem to calculate the field solution at each time step. The body surface boundary condition is expanded about the mean body position to second order by a Taylor series. The method is applied to the cases of a semi-submerged circular cylinder and a rectangular cylinder undergoing sinusoidal sway, heave and roll motions. For the case of the circular cylinder, comparisons of the computed hydrodynamic forces at first and second order are made with previous theoretical and experimental results and a favorable agreement is indicated. The importance of second-order effects in the calculation of the hydrodynamic force is discussed.


1984 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Colen Kennell ◽  
Allen Plotkin

This research addresses the potential flow about a thin two-dimensional hydrofoil moving with constant velocity at a fixed depth beneath a free surface. The thickness-to-chord ratio of the hydrofoil and disturbances to the free stream are assumed to be small. These small perturbation assumptions are used to produce first-and second-order subproblems structured to provide consistent approximations to boundary conditions on the body and the free surface. Nonlinear corrections to the free-surface boundary condition are included at second order. Each subproblem is solved by a distribution of sources and vortices on the chord line and doublets on the free surface. After analytic determination of source and doublet strengths, a singular integral equation for the vortex strength is derived. This integral equation is reduced to a Fredholm integral equation which is solved numerically. Lift, wave drag, and free-surface shape are calculated for a flat plate and a Joukowski hydrofoil. The importance of free-surface effects relative to body effects is examined by a parametric variation of Froude number and depth of submergence.


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