NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR WAVE FORCE ON LARGE BODY WITH ARBITRARY SHAPE

In this paper a nonlinear diffraction theory due to Stoke's 2nd-order wave for computing the wave force on the large body is presented. The radiation condition as r-∞ for 2nd-order scattered potential has been studied in connection with asymptotic solutions. A numerical procedure has been developed for the purpose of calculating the nonlinear wave force on the large body with arbitrary shape.

TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR DETERMINING NONLINEAR WAVE FORCES ON LARGE SUBMERGED BODIES

In this paper, we first develop the far field asymptotic solutions of the second-order scattering waves for the vertical plane problem taking the second-order Stokes waves as the incident waves. The asymptotic solutions satisfy the Laplace equation, the sea bed and free surface boundary conditions and are the out-going waves. Then the radiation conditions of the second-order mattering waves are derived by using the asymptotic solutions. By using the two-dimensinal finite clement method with the radiation conditions imposed on the ar- tificial boundaries, the computer program, known as 'NWF2', for determining nonlinear wave forces on large submerged bodies has been written. As a numerical example, nonlinear wave forces on a semi-circu- lar cylinder lying on the sea bed arc presented.

SECOND-ORDER INTERACTION OF IRREGULAR WAVES WITH A TRUNCATED COLUMN

A complete semi-analytical solution is obtained for second-order diffraction of plane bichromatic waves by a fixed truncated circular column.The fluid domain is divided into interior and exterior regions.In the exterior region,the second-order velocity potential is expressed in terms of‘locked-wave’and‘free-wave’ components,both are solved using Fourier and eigenfunction expansions.The re- sulting‘locked wave’potential is expressed by one-dimensional Green's integrals with oscillating integrands.In order to increase computational efficiency,the far-field part of the integrals are carried out analytically.Solutions in both regions are matched on the interface by the potential and its normal derivative continuity conditions.Based on the present approach,the sum-and difference-frequency potentials are efficiently evaluated and are used to generate the quadratic transfer functions which correlates the incident wave spectrum with second-order forcing spectrum on the column.The sum-frequency QTFs for a TLP column are present,which are compared for some frequency pairs with those from a fully numerical procedure.Satisfactory agreement has been obtained.QTF spectra for a case study TLP column,generated using the semi-analytical solution are presented.Also given are the results for nonlinear wave field around the column.

IMPROVED MODEL FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR WATER WAVE FORCE PREDICTION

An improved model for numerically predicting nonlinear wave forces exerted on an offshore structure is pro- posed.In a previous work[9],the authors presented a model for the same purpose with an open boundary condi- tion imposed,where the wave celerity has been defined constant.Generally,the value of wave celerity is time-de- pendent and varying with spatial location.With the present model the wave celerity is evaluated by an upwind dif- ference scheme,which enables the method to be extended to conditions of variable finite water depth,where the value of wave celerity varies with time as the wave approaches the offshore structure.The finite difference method incorporated with the time-stepping technique in time domain developed here makes the numerical evolution effec- tive and stable.Computational examples on interactions between a surface-piercing vertical cylinder and a solitary wave or a cnoidal wave train demonstrates the validity of this program.

COMPARISON OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH STEADY-STATE FORCING SOURCES

Low-frequency phenomena in the atmosphere are intimately related to stationary waves and, in a sense, the former may even be viewed as the time-varying part of the quasi-stationary waves themselves, Much attention has been focused on nonlinear interactions in the conceptual study on stationary waves. Linear and nonlinear primitive-equation baroclinic spectral models are adopted to investigate the response of stationary waves to large- scale mechanical forcing and steady-state thermal forcing, both idealized and realistic, followed by calculations of the EP fluxes and three-dimensional wave activity fluxes (Plumb, 1985) for both the linear and nonlinear solu- tions. Results show that when the forcing source grows intense enough to be comparable to the real one, non- linear interaction becomes very important, especially for the maintenance of tropical and polar stationary waves. Care should be taken, however, in using the EP flux and Plumb's 3-D flux for diagnostic analysis of observational data as they are highly sensitive to nonlinear interaction.