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REVIEW OF FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION MODEL IN A NUMERICAL WAVE TANK WITH OFFSHORE STRUCTURES NEAR THE FREE SURFACE
... Numerical wave tank flumes are developed in commercial and open-source CFD ...numerical wave tank simulation with RANS ...numerical wave tank use the artificial damping zone to ...
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Measuring air–sea gas-exchange velocities in a large-scale annular wind–wave tank
... Supplementary measurements of wind driven, surface asso- ciated, physical parameters, such as the mean square slope and the water-sided friction velocity, were additionally made in the Aeolotron wind–wave ...
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Comparative heat and gas exchange measurements in the Heidelberg Aeolotron, a large annular wind-wave tank
... fer measurements in a 9.1 m long linear wind-wave tank. They found that heat and gas transfer velocities can be well matched using a modification of the surface renewal model, the random eddy model by ...
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Wave tank experiments on erosion of rocky coasts
... Bagnold 1939, in his wave tank experiments on the pressures produced by breaking waves on vertical walls, found maximum shock pressures between the wave crest and 0.6 H above the wave tr[r] ...
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Rogue waves in a wave tank: experiments and modeling
... As the main objective of our job was the generation of rogue waves, we will not dwell on other aspects related to the structure itself; however, we will point out that this dike has had to be built in Aviles Harbour in ...
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Orientation to Oceanic Waves by Green Turtle Hatchlings
... Instead, hatchlings tethered offshore in floating orientation arenas consistently swam towards the direction of wave approach Salmon and Lohmann, 1989; Lohmann et al.. Wave tank experime[r] ...
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Limitations on the creation of continuously surfable waves generated by a pressure source moving in a circular path
... on wave generation, including the generation of solitary waves or ...solitary wave in the Union Canal in Scotland, and characterised by the wave crest being perpendicular to the pressure source ...
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The Deterministic Generation of Extreme Surface Water Waves Based on Soliton on Finite Background in Laboratory
... the wave tank for the extreme signal to appear and the amplitude of such a signal within some frequency region, a signal can be provided as an input to the wave makers (with their limitation) such ...
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CFD Simulation of Internal Solitary Wave Using the Volume of fluid Method within OpenFOAM
... Abstract. A numerical wave tank based on OpenFOAM was developed to investigate internal solitary waves. The interface of fluids was captured by VOF method. In this paper, comparisons between numerical ...
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GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY FROM OCEAN WAVE ENERGY: A NOVICE TECHNIQUE
... This wave tank/container (see Figure 3) design includes a ...paddle wave maker is provided at the left end in the container and it is hinged on a ...the wave-maker will be operated ...the ...
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Article A model free control based on machine learning for energy converters in an array
... For the wave tank test an ellipsoidal buoy with a diameter of 0.5 m was used, which was connected with a line, guided by a pulley system, to the PTO. The PTO consisted of an electric linear motor that ...
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The response of a semisubmersible model under focused wave groups: Experimental investigation
... assess the loads on fixed offshore wave energy devices. Cas- sidy et al. [22] applied a constrained NewWave sea state to jack-up units. Gao et al. [18] and Deng et al. [17] applied de- terministic freak waves to ...
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Application of phase decomposition to the analysis of random time series from wave basin tests
... towing tank at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...the wave tank was 300 meters and the width of the tank was 16 ...The tank had a flat bed with a water depth of ...type wave ...
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Cliff erosion of salt marshes : experimental evaluation of the effect of vegetation characteristics and sediment properties of erodibility
... a wave tank was used in which a cliff-like marsh edge was ...significant wave heights of 20 cm and 30 s period impacting on the sediment cores’ ...
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Numerical simulation of floating bodies in extreme free surface waves
... numerical wave tank (NWT) to study wave loading on a wave energy converter (WEC) device in heave ...Extreme wave boundary conditions are prescribed in an empty NWT and compared with ...
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Environmental & load data : 1:15 scale tidal turbine subject to a variety of regular wave conditions
... The wave gauges were calibrated daily using a minimum of three mea- surement ...points. Wave gauges are logged on the main tank control PC and are synchronised by an internal trigger to the ...
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Heat Extraction from Chimney and Pollution Control
... The pumping of water is a basic and practical technique, far more practical than scooping it up with one's hands or lifting it in a hand-held bucket. This is true whether the water is drawn from a fresh source, moved to ...
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The influence of ride control systems on the motion and load response of a hydroelastic segmented catamaran model
... the wave induced vertical accelerations are greater in the higher sea states, the work of the actuators is less effective because they have to compensate higher forces and momentums ...
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Behavior of a Pool Filled with Water and Loaded by an Internal Explosion
... The pressure field value resulting from shock wave propagation is used to assess the behaviour of pool or tank walls when subjected to a rapid pressure change ver[r] ...
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Vibration problem of a spherical tank containing jet propellant: numerical simulations
... To complement the mixed finite element substructure-subdomain method presented herein, a specialized Fluid – Structure Interaction Analysis Program-FSIAP (Xing 1995a, b) based on PC computer architecture was further ...
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