USING THE RASINTERFOAM CFD MODEL FOR WAVE TRANSFORMATION AND COASTAL MODELLING
No. 32 (2010), Waves
No. 32 (2010)

USING THE RASINTERFOAM CFD MODEL FOR WAVE TRANSFORMATION AND COASTAL MODELLING

Waves
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v32.waves.23
Published 2011-01-31
Gerald Charles John Morgan
University of Bath
Jun Zang
University of Bath
Deborah Greaves
University of Plymouth
Andrew Heath
University of Bath
Chris Whitlow
Edenvale Young Associates
John Young
Edenvale Young Associates
Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference
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Keywords

CFD
OpenFOAM
Wave Propagation
rasInterFoam
Coastal Modeling

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Morgan, G. C. J., Zang, J., Greaves, D., Heath, A., Whitlow, C., & Young, J. (2011). USING THE RASINTERFOAM CFD MODEL FOR WAVE TRANSFORMATION AND COASTAL MODELLING. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(32), waves.23. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v32.waves.23
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Abstract

The CFD model, rasInterFoam, part of the OpenFOAM library for continuum mechanics, is used to reproduce experimental results for the propagation of monochromatic waves over a submerged bar. The model is shown to reproduce the experimental results very well on the front face and top of the bar, and give adequate results on the back face, even on extremely coarse meshes. Sensitivity analyses are presented for the model results, investigating the dependence on mesh density and discretisation scheme of the model. The modeling of the wave transformations in the model is shown to be broadly insensitive to these parameters within the ranges tested.
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