Wave-current-body interaction by a time-domain high-order boundary element method Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The effects of uniform steady currents (or small forward velocity) on the interaction of a large three-dimensional body with waves are investigated by a time-domain higher order boundary element method (THOBEM). Using regular perturbation with two small parameters and associated with wave slope and current velocity, respectively, the boundary value problem is decomposed into the zeroth-order steady double-body-flow problem at O() with a rigid-wall free-surface condition and the first-order unsteady wave problem with the modified free-surface and body-boundary conditions expanded up to O(). Higher-order boundary integral equation methods are then used to solve the respective problems with the Rankine sources distributed over the entire boundary. The free surface is integrated at each time step. The Sommerfeld/Orlanski radiation condition is numerically implemented to absorb all the wave energy at the open boundary. Using the developed numerical method, wave forces, wave field and run-up, mean drift forces and wave drift damping are calculated.

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference

author list (cited authors)

  • Kim, D. J., & Kim, M. H.

complete list of authors

  • Kim, DJ||Kim, MH

publication date

  • January 1997