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Wave impacts on a solid deck in transient wave groups

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Hongchao Wang *
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H. Santo
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Paul H. Taylor
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Saishuai Dai
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Day, A. H.
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Eng Soon Chan
DOI:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2022.103755delete
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Wave impacts on an elevated solid deck due to transient focused wave groups are studied numerically. Previously reported experiments with and without an I-beam grillage beneath the deck by Santo et al. (2020) are reproduced successfully in a three-dimensional numerical wave tank based on a two-phase Navier-Stokes solver. The impact loads on the solid deck are relatively simple. The three-dimensional horizontal force, characterised by a single peak in time, is close to two-dimensional, whereas the vertical force consists of upward force and downward suction force. The downward suction force is related to triangularisation of the wetted area underneath the deck and dominated by the added mass effect, which is a three-dimensional effect and therefore any two-dimensional simulation will overpredict the strongly three-dimensional process and the vertical impact loads. The wave impact loads on the solid deck with a grillage are more complicated, with successive force spikes observed for both the horizontal and vertical loads. The significance of entrapped air pockets in the grillage to global wave impact loads is ascertained through interrogating flow field of numerical experiments. It is found that large upward vertical impulsive forces are caused by high local pressures when entrapped down-wave air-pockets are formed, while large downward suction forces are resulted from both high-frequency up-wave air-pocket effect and the low -frequency added mass effect. Large horizontal impulsive forces are due to the combined effects of the down-wave air-pocket and the upward jetting motion of the wave crests. The entrapped air-pocket effects are found to be more important for vertical than horizontal forces. (C)2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Extreme wave impact
Focused wave group
Solid deck
I-beam grillage
Entrapped air
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