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About the Free Surface Flow Simulation around a TLP
並列摘要
The TLP of interest in this study is a buoyant platform with four piers and pantoons. The purpose of this study was to consider the effects of applying different solvers in the numerical simulation on the prediction of the flow pattern around the TLP. The flow around the TLP was numerically simulated with inviscid, laminar, and turbulent solvers. Each case were performed for three different Froude Numbers. To simplify the calculations symmetry condition was considered. Besides the generated surface waves there was a pair of non-symmetrical vortexes after each pier. The vortex after the front pier significantly affected the flow pattern around the rear one in the manner that the vortex behind the rear pier was clearly smaller. In all cases the vortex more distanced from the symmetry plane was larger than the closer one. The obtained results showed that the generated waves resulting from inviscid solver were smoother than those of the turbulent and laminar solvers accordingly. Finally, it was concluded that the effect employing turbulent or laminar solver was negligible compared to the effects of different Froude numbers.