Assessment of Scaled Boundary FEM-based model for solving wave interaction with π-shape Floating Breakwaters

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 School of civil engineering, college of engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Prof, Civil Engineering Department, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, Po Box: 1996-51335.

3 Assistant Professor at K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

4 Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

5 School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.

Abstract

The principal aim of the current study is to examine a Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM)-based model to analyze the interaction problem between the water waves and moored floating breakwaters with sharp edges. Regarding the increasing employment of rectangular cross-section floating breakwaters with vertical side plates to their down-wave and up-wave sides (π-shaped floating breakwaters), it can be stated that they are used as a practical basis to examine how the model works. By comparing the present solutions to those from existing literature, without changing the mesh density compared to previous simulations used in simple configurations, the accuracy and generality of the present model in the complex configurations are evaluated. It is demonstrated that as the proposed model is a semi-analytical method, unlike conventional numerical methods, there is no need to refine the mesh around sharp corners, which can considerably save the computational time, effort, and cost in large solution domains. 

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Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering
Volume 7, Issue 1
September 2022
Pages 84-94

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  • Receive Date: 07 May 2022
  • Revise Date: 05 July 2022
  • Accept Date: 12 July 2022

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