Comparison of Macro-Scale Porosity Implementations for CFD Modelling of Wave Interaction with Thin Porous Structures
dc.contributor.author | Feichtner, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Mackay, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Tabor, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Thies, PR | |
dc.contributor.author | Johanning, L | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-02T10:21:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of wave interaction with thin perforated structures is of interest in a range of engineering applications. When large-scale effects such as forces and the overall flow behaviour are of interest, a microstructural resolution of the perforated geometry can be excessive or prohibitive in terms of computational cost. More efficiently, a thin porous structure can be represented by its macro-scale effects by means of a quadratic momentum source or pressure-drop respectively. In the context of regular wave interaction with thin porous structures and within an incompressible, two-phase Navier–Stokes and volume-of-fluid framework (based on interFoam of OpenFOAM®), this work investigates porosity representation as a porous surface with a pressure-jump condition and as volumetric isotropic and anisotropic porous media. Potential differences between these three types of macro-scale porosity implementations are assessed in terms of qualitative flow visualizations, velocity profiles along the water column, the wave elevation near the structures and the horizontal force on the structures. The comparison shows that all three types of implementation are capable of reproducing large-scale effects of the wave-structure interaction and that the differences between all obtained results are relatively small. It was found that the isotropic porous media implementation is numerically the most stable and requires the shortest computation times. The pressure-jump implementation requires the smallest time steps for stability and thus the longest computation times. This is likely due to the spurious local velocities at the air-water interface as a result of the volume-of-fluid interface capturing method combined with interFoam’s segregated pressure-velocity coupling algorithm. This paper provides useful insights and recommendations for effective macro-scale modelling of thin porous structures. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Newton Fund | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 9 (2), article 150 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/jmse9020150 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EP/R007519/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 424495777 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124590 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). | en_GB |
dc.subject | CFD | en_GB |
dc.subject | OpenFOAM | en_GB |
dc.subject | VOF | en_GB |
dc.subject | interFoam | en_GB |
dc.subject | WSI | en_GB |
dc.subject | wave-structure interaction | en_GB |
dc.subject | perforated | en_GB |
dc.subject | porous | en_GB |
dc.subject | pressure-jump | en_GB |
dc.subject | porous media | en_GB |
dc.title | Comparison of Macro-Scale Porosity Implementations for CFD Modelling of Wave Interaction with Thin Porous Structures | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-02T10:21:37Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from MDPI via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability Statement: The research data supporting this publication are provided within this paper. The code used for data collection is the existing open source code OpenFOAM® (The OpenFOAM Foundation v5) and the open source libraries OlaFlow/IHFoam [48] and waves2Foam [39,49]. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2077-1312 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-01-27 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-02-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-02-02T10:19:07Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-02-02T10:21:51Z | |
refterms.panel | B | en_GB |
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