Numerical modelling of interactions of waves and sheared currents with a surface piercing vertical cylinder

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dc.contributor.authorChen, L.F.
dc.contributor.authorSanto, H.
dc.contributor.authorBuldakov, E. V.
dc.contributor.authorSimons, R. R.
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, P. H.
dc.contributor.authorZang, J.
dc.contributor.authorStagonas, Dimitris
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-10T14:38:14Z
dc.date.available2019-05-10T14:38:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-04
dc.description.abstractVertical surface piercing cylinders, such as typical coastal wind turbine foundations and basic elements of many coastal structures, are often exposed to combined loading from waves and currents. Accurate prediction of hydrodynamic loads on a vertical cylinder in a combined wave-current flow is a challenging task. This work describes and compares two different approaches for numerical modelling of the interaction between focussed wave groups and a sheared current, and then their interactions with a vertical piercing cylinder. Both approaches employ an empirical methodology to generate a wave focussed at the location of the structure in the presence of sheared currents and use OpenFOAM, an open source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) package. In the first approach, the empirical wave-on-current focussing methodology is applied directly in the OpenFOAM domain, replicating the physical wave-current flume. This approach is referred to as the Direct Method. In the second approach, a novel Lagrangian model is used to calculate the free surface elevation and flow kinematics, which are then used as boundary conditions for a smaller 3-D OpenFOAM domain with shorter simulation time. This approach is referred to as the Coupling Method. The capabilities of the two numerical methods have been validated by comparing with the experimental measurements collected in a wave-current flume at UCL. The performance of both approaches is evaluated in terms of accuracy and computational effort required. It is shown that both approaches provide satisfactory predictions in terms of local free surface elevation and nonlinear wave loading on the vertical cylinders with an acceptable level of computational cost. The Coupling Method is more efficient because of the use of a smaller computational domain and the application of the iterative wave-current generation in the faster Lagrangian model. Additionally, it is shown that a Stokes-type perturbation expansion can be generalized to approximate cylinder loads arising from wave groups on following and adverse sheared currents, allowing estimation of the higher-order harmonic shapes and time histories from knowledge of the linear components aloneen_UK
dc.identifier.citationZang J, Taylor P, Chen L, et al., Numerical modelling of interactions of waves and sheared currents with a surface piercing vertical cylinder. Coastal Engineering, Volume 145, March 2019, pp. 65-83en_UK
dc.identifier.cris23419568
dc.identifier.issn0378-3839
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.01.001
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14144
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectHarmonic reconstructionen_UK
dc.subjectLagrangian wave-current flumeen_UK
dc.subjectFocussed wave groupsen_UK
dc.subjectSheared currentsen_UK
dc.subjectOpenFOAMen_UK
dc.subjectWave-on-current focussing methodologyen_UK
dc.titleNumerical modelling of interactions of waves and sheared currents with a surface piercing vertical cylinderen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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