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A 3D unstructured grid nearshore hydrodynamic model based on the vortex force formalism
Acknowledgments This work was partly supported by joint Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) UK and Technology Foundation STW Netherlands funded SINBAD (EP/J005541/1) project. P. Zheng was supported by the China Scholarship Council during his four-year PhD study at the University of Liverpool. We would like to thank Prof. C.S. Chen of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth for providing the source code of FVCOM and also the SWAN developers for developing and providing this open source code. We would also like to thank the staff and personnel involved in collecting and maintaining the DUCK’94 experiment dataset and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions. Computational support was provided by the Chadwick High Performance Computer at University of Liverpool and also the facilities of N8 HPC Centre of Excellence, provided and funded by the N8 consortium and EPSRC (EP/K000225/1).Peer reviewedPublisher PD
The spatio-temporal spectrum of turbulent flows
Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a
disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a
study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence of
different restitutive forces. We show how to compute and analyse the
spatio-temporal spectrum from data stemming from numerical simulations and from
laboratory experiments. Four cases are considered: homogeneous and isotropic
turbulence, rotating turbulence, stratified turbulence, and water wave
turbulence. For homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, the spectrum allows
identification of sweeping by the large scale flow. For rotating and for
stratified turbulence, the spectrum allows identification of the waves, precise
quantification of the energy in the waves and in the turbulent eddies, and
identification of physical mechanisms such as Doppler shift and wave absorption
in critical layers. Finally, in water wave turbulence the spectrum shows a
transition from gravity-capillary waves to bound waves as the amplitude of the
forcing is increased.Comment: Added new references and analysi
Cumulant expansions for atmospheric flows
The equations governing atmospheric flows are nonlinear. Consequently, the
hierarchy of cumulant equations is not closed. But because atmospheric flows
are inhomogeneous and anisotropic, the nonlinearity may manifest itself only
weakly through interactions of mean fields with disturbances such as thermals
or eddies. In such situations, truncations of the hierarchy of cumulant
equations hold promise as a closure strategy.
We review how truncations at second order can be used to model and elucidate
the dynamics of atmospheric flows. Two examples are considered. First, we study
the growth of a dry convective boundary layer, which is heated from below,
leading to turbulent upward energy transport and growth of the boundary layer.
We demonstrate that a quasilinear truncation of the equations of motion, in
which interactions of disturbances among each other are neglected but
interactions with mean fields are taken into account, can capture the growth of
the convective boundary layer even if it does not capture important turbulent
transport terms. Second, we study the evolution of two-dimensional large-scale
waves representing waves in Earth's upper atmosphere. We demonstrate that a
cumulant expansion truncated at second order (CE2) can capture the evolution of
such waves and their nonlinear interaction with the mean flow in some
circumstances, for example, when the wave amplitude is small enough or the
planetary rotation rate is large enough. However, CE2 fails to capture the flow
evolution when nonlinear eddy--eddy interactions in surf zones become
important. Higher-order closures can capture these missing interactions.
The results point to new ways in which the dynamics of turbulent boundary
layers may be represented in climate models, and they illustrate different
classes of nonlinear processes that can control wave dissipation and momentum
fluxes in the troposphere.Comment: 43 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in the New Journal of
Physic
Resonant Interactions in Rotating Homogeneous Three-dimensional Turbulence
Direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous turbulence
under rapid rigid rotation are conducted to examine the predictions of resonant
wave theory for both small Rossby number and large Reynolds number. The
simulation results reveal that there is a clear inverse energy cascade to the
large scales, as predicted by 2D Navier-Stokes equations for resonant
interactions of slow modes. As the rotation rate increases, the
vertically-averaged horizontal velocity field from 3D Navier-Stokes converges
to the velocity field from 2D Navier-Stokes, as measured by the energy in their
difference field. Likewise, the vertically-averaged vertical velocity from 3D
Navier-Stokes converges to a solution of the 2D passive scalar equation. The
energy flux directly into small wave numbers in the plane from
non-resonant interactions decreases, while fast-mode energy concentrates closer
to that plane. The simulations are consistent with an increasingly dominant
role of resonant triads for more rapid rotation
Towards the numerical simulation of 5 Floating Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters installed in a line array using OpenFOAM
In this paper we use the CFD toolbox OpenFOAM to
perform numerical simulations of multiple floating point
absorber Wave Energy Converters (WECs) in a numerical wave
basin. The two-phase Navier-Stokes fluid solver is coupled with a
motion solver to simulate the wave-induced rigid body heave
motion. The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first objective
is to extend numerical simulations of a single WEC unit to
multiple WECs and to tackle the issues of modelling individual
floating objects close to each other in an array layout. The second
objective aims to include all the physical processes (e.g. friction
forces) observed during experimental model tests in the
numerical simulations. The achievements are verified by
validating the numerical model with laboratory experiments for
free decay and regular wave tests using a line array of two and
five WECs. For all the simulations presented, a good agreement
is found between the numerical and experimental results for the
WECs’ heave motions, the surge forces on the WECs and the
perturbed wave field. As a result, our coupled CFD–motion
solver proves to be a suitable and accurate toolbox for the study
of wave-structure interaction problems of WEC arrays.location: Cork, Irelandstatus: publishe
Nonlinear resonances of water waves
In the last fifteen years, a great progress has been made in the
understanding of the nonlinear resonance dynamics of water waves. Notions of
scale- and angle-resonances have been introduced, new type of energy cascade
due to nonlinear resonances in the gravity water waves have been discovered,
conception of a resonance cluster has been much and successful employed, a
novel model of laminated wave turbulence has been developed, etc. etc. Two
milestones in this area of research have to be mentioned: a) development of the
-class method which is effective for computing integer points on the
resonance manifolds, and b) construction of the marked planar graphs, instead
of classical resonance curves, representing simultaneously all resonance
clusters in a finite spectral domain, together with their dynamical systems.
Among them, new integrable dynamical systems have been found that can be used
for explaining numerical and laboratory results. The aim of this paper is to
give a brief overview of our current knowledge about nonlinear resonances among
water waves, and formulate three most important open problems at the end.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, to appear in DCDS, final version (small changes
in the text, type errors corrected, some additional bibliographic items
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