An Irregular Wave Generating Approach Based on naoe-FOAM-SJTU Solver

• Published in: China ocean engineering Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 177 - 192
• Main Author: 沈志荣 万德成
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nanjing Chinese Ocean Engineering Society 01.04.2016
• Subjects: Coastal Sciences; Engineering; Fluid- and Aerodynamics; IGATE; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Numerical and Computational Physics; Oceanography; Offshore Engineering; Simulation; 不规则波; 傅里叶分析; 基础; 控制方程; 数值波浪水槽; 求解器; 泡沫; OpenFOAM; naoe-FOAM-SJTU solver; RANS; VOF; wave spectrum; irregular wave
• ISSN: 0890-5487; 2191-8945
• DOI: 10.1007/s13344-016-0010-1

In this paper,a wave generating approach for long-crest irregular waves in a numerical tank by our in-house solver naoe-FOAM-SJTU is presented.The naoe-FOAM-SJTU solver is developed using an open source tool kit,Open FOAM.Reynolds-averaged Navier？Stokes（RANS） equations are chosen as governing equations and the volume of fluid（VOF） is employed to capture the two phases interface.Incoming wave group is generated by imposing the boundary conditions of the tank inlet.A spectrum based correction procedure is developed to make the measured spectrum approaching to the target spectrum.This procedure can automatically adjust the wave generation signal based on the measured wave elevation by wave height probe in numerical wave tank.After 3 to 4 iterations,the measured spectrum agrees well with the target one.In order to validate this method,several wave spectra are chosen and validated in the numerical wave tank,with comparison between the final measured and target spectra.In order to investigate a practical situation,a modified Wigley hull is placed in the wave tank with incoming irregular waves.The wave-induced heave and pitch motions are treated by Fourier analysis to obtain motion responses,showing good agreements with the measurements.