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Volume 5, Issue 10 (3-2010)                   Marine Engineering 2010, 5(10): 1-15 | Back to browse issues page

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Panahi R, Shafieefar M. **A FINITE VOLUME ALGORITHM TO ASSESS HYDRODYNAMICS OF MARINE STRUCTURES. Marine Engineering 2010; 5 (10) :1-15
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1- Tarbiat Modarres University
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Development of a compatible computational fluid dynamics procedure to investigate rigid and fixed/free coastal and offshore structures hydrodynamics in a time-dependent one/two phase flow of viscous incompressible fluids is presented. Differential governing equations are discretised using finite volume approach based on a colocated arrangement. The conservation equations for mass and momentum are solved using a fractional step method. In conjunction, free surface is simulated using a volume method. An overlapping mesh system is implemented to deal with a two-dimensional computational domain including a non-uniform background mesh of Cartesian cells as well as an overset mesh of quad cells. According to the complete assessment of the code developed based on the algorithm, there is a robust tool to deal with hydrodynamics where extension to three dimensions is straightforward, as well. Although many two-dimensional problems can be solved, but the code must be developed for three dimensions. In addition, turbulence is not considered in the present formulation and left for future researches. A simple non-conservative approach to transfer all two-phase flow variables is introduced. Besides, Algebraic sets of equations extracted from different meshes for each variable are solved simultaneously to construct a strong coupling. The final algorithm is a new and appropriate combination, as well.

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Type of Study: Research Paper | Subject: Offshore Hydrodynamic
Received: 2010/07/19 | Accepted: 2013/10/19

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