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Free-Surface Flow and Fluid-Object Interaction

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MARINE 2011, IV International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering

Part of the book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ((COMPUTMETHODS,volume 29))

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We present our free-surface flow and fluid-object interaction computational framework. The framework is an instantiation of the Mixed Interface-Tracking/Interface-Capturing Technique (MITICT) (Akin et al. in Comput. Fluids 36:2–11, 2007; Cruchaga et al. in Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids 54:1021–1031, 2007; Tezduyar in Arch. Comput. Methods Eng. 8:83–130, 2001) where the level-set method is used for the air-water interface description and the ALE (Hughes et al. in Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 29:329–349, 1981) technique is employed to track the moving fluid-object interface. We discuss the definition of the local mesh size used in the level-set formulation, which is an important aspect of this work. We show two example computations, the dam break and Fridsma hull, and validate our methodology using the experimental data available for these cases.

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    In [22] the results were reported in terms of the Speed-Length Ratio (SLR), \(u/\sqrt{L}\), which is a dimensional quantity. Here report the results in terms of the Froude number, which is non-dimensional.

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This research was supported through ARO Award W911NF-10-1-0247. This support is gratefully acknowledged. We also wish to thank the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego for providing HPC resources that contributed to the research results reported in this paper.

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Akkerman, I., Benner, K., Bazilevs, Y. (2013). Free-Surface Flow and Fluid-Object Interaction. In: Eça, L., Oñate, E., García-Espinosa, J., Kvamsdal, T., Bergan, P. (eds) MARINE 2011, IV International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6143-8_3

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