Review on fixed and floating offshore structures. Part I: Types of platforms with some applications

CV Amaechi, A Reda, HO Butler, IA Ja'e… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Diverse forms of offshore oil and gas structures are utilized for a wide range of purposes and
in varying water depths. They are designed for unique environments and water depths …

A review of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics for floating offshore wind turbines

S Xu, Y Xue, W Zhao, D Wan - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The design and development of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) is an attractive
issue in the wind energy harvesting field. In this study, the research related to the high …

Development of naoe-FOAM-SJTU solver based on OpenFOAM for marine hydrodynamics

J Wang, W Zhao, D Wan - Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2019 - Springer
Abstract A CFD solver naoe-FOAM-SJTU (The abbreviation naoe stands for naval
architecture and ocean engineering) is developed based on the open source platform …

Vortex identification methods in marine hydrodynamics

W Zhao, J Wang, D Wan - Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, several commonly used vortex identification methods for marine
hydrodynamics are revisited. In order to extract and analyse the vortical structures in marine …

Hybrid turbulence models for flows around a stationary smooth circular cylinder

J He, W Wang, W Zhao, D Wan - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the accuracy, stability and efficiency of the different
hybrid turbulence models via the benchmark computations of flows around a stationary …

Application progress of computational fluid dynamic techniques for complex viscous flows in ship and ocean engineering

J Wang, D Wan - Journal of Marine Science and Application, 2020 - Springer
Complex flow around floating structures is a highly nonlinear problem, and it is a typical
feature in ship and ocean engineering. Traditional experimental methods and potential flow …

Study of a container ship with breaking waves at high Froude number using URANS and DDES methods

J Wang, Z Ren, D Wan - Journal of Ship Research, 2020 - onepetro.org
The KRISO container ship model is used for numerical simulations to investigate
hydrodynamic performance under high speeds. Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier …

Numerical investigations of the flow-induced vibration of a three-dimensional circular cylinder with various symmetric strips attached

C Ma, W Zhao, D Wan - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Changes to the surface morphology of a cylinder immersed in a uniform flow may affect the
surrounding flow characteristics. Circular cylinders with various symmetric strips attached …

A CFD study of vortex-induced motions of a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine

Y Liu, D Ge, X Bai, L Li - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vortex-induced motion (VIM) is a critical issue for floating structures made of one or more
columns, due to its significant impacts on their operational stability. Supported by column …

Numerical investigations of three-dimensional flows around a cylinder attaching with symmetric strips

C Ma, W Zhao, D Wan - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Minor changes to the surface of a cylinder can significantly influence the associated flow
characteristics. This paper describes a three-dimensional numerical investigation of a …