Nonlinear hydrodynamic and real fluid effects on wave energy converters

HA Wolgamot, CJ Fitzgerald - … , Part A: Journal of Power and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Ocean wave energy has been of interest since at least the mid-1970s and great advances in
the understanding of the fundamental principles of wave energy extraction and converter …

A stabilised nodal spectral element method for fully nonlinear water waves

AP Engsig-Karup, C Eskilsson, D Bigoni - Journal of Computational …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present an arbitrary-order spectral element method for general-purpose simulation of
non-overturning water waves, described by fully nonlinear potential theory. The method can …

Nonlinear time‐domain wave‐structure interaction: A parallel fast integral equation approach

JC Harris, E Dombre, M Benoit, ST Grilli… - … Methods in Fluids, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We report on the development and validation of a new numerical wave tank (NWT) solving
fully nonlinear potential flow (FNPF) equations, as a more efficient variation of Grilli et al.'s …

Kinematics of nonlinear waves over variable bathymetry. Part I: Numerical modelling, verification and validation

M Benoit, J Zhang, Y Ma - Coastal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Fluid particle kinematics due to wave motion (ie orbital velocities and accelerations) at and
beneath the free surface is involved in many coastal and ocean engineering applications, eg …

An adaptive harmonic polynomial cell method with immersed boundaries: Accuracy, stability, and applications

C Tong, Y Shao, HB Bingham… - International Journal for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a 2D high‐order and easily accessible immersed‐boundary adaptive harmonic
polynomial cell (IB‐AHPC) method to solve fully nonlinear wave‐structure interaction …

A 3D parallel boundary element method on unstructured triangular grids for fully nonlinear wave-body interactions

E Dombre, JC Harris, M Benoit, D Violeau, C Peyrard - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development and validation of a three-dimensional numerical wave
tank devoted to studying wave-structure interaction problems. It is based on the fully …

Numerical analysis on the generation, propagation and interaction of solitary waves by a Harmonic Polynomial Cell Method

C Tong, Y Shao, FCW Hanssen, Y Li, B Xie, Z Lin - Wave Motion, 2019 - Elsevier
A numerical wave tank based on the Harmonic Polynomial Cell (HPC) method is created to
study the generation, propagation and interaction of solitary waves. The HPC method has …

A p-Multigrid Hybrid-Spectral Model for Nonlinear Water Waves

A Melander, AP Engsig-Karup - Water Waves, 2024 - Springer
To improve both scale and fidelity of numerical water wave simulations to study the evolution
of wave fields within offshore engineering, it is of key practical interest to achieve high …

An efficient p‐multigrid spectral element model for fully nonlinear water waves and fixed bodies

AP Engsig‐Karup, WL Laskowski - International Journal for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In marine offshore engineering, cost‐efficient simulation of unsteady water waves and their
nonlinear interaction with bodies are important to address a broad range of engineering …

Simulation of wave forces on a gravity based foundation by a BEM based on fully nonlinear potential flow

JC Harris, K Kuznetsov, C Peyrard, S Saviot… - … Ocean and Polar …, 2017 - onepetro.org
We report on recent developments of a three-dimensional (3D) model for wave propagation
and wave-structure interaction. The velocity field is solved with a boundary element method …