EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L16255/01 |
Title: |
A GENERAL SURFACE MARKER RANS SOLVER FOR FLOATING PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN STEEP WAVES (FPS 117) |
Principal Investigator: |
Stansby, Professor PK |
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Civil Engineering |
Organisation: |
Victoria University of Manchester, The |
Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
Starts: |
30 September 1996 |
Ends: |
29 September 1998 |
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59,741
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To date, hydrodynamic analyses for forces and repsonse of floating production systems have been based on potential-flow theory with viscous effects incorporated through empirically-based drag coefficients.The aim of the MTD Programme is to encourage application of numerical methods for the solution of the RANS equations incorporating steep-wave interaction with a body. In this project the building block is the UMIST finite-volume RANS solver for complex geometries which uses a curvilinear, collocated, multiblock mesh strategy. A choice of turbulence model which is available from linear and nonlinear eddy viscosity models to k - E and Reynolds stress transport modelling. The surface-marker method will represent the free surface, requiring development for the collocated mesh system which is considered essential for complex geometries. This method conveniently uses a fixed mesh and has shown high accuracy for highly transient flows. Body motion will however be accommodated through dynamic meshing local to the body (only 2D possible in this 2 years programme).
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