《A CIPBased Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Flow Related to Freak Waves》.pdfVIP

China Ocean Eng., Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 719 – 736 © 2013 Chinese Ocean Engineering Society DOI 10.1007/s13344-013-0060-6, ISSN 0890-5487 A CIP-Based Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Flow Related * to Freak Waves ZHAO Xi-zeng (赵西增)a, b,1 a Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China b State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, the Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou 310012, China (Received 15 March 2012; received revised form 14 October 2012; accepted 25 January 2013) ABSTRACT An enhanced numerical model for simulating two-dimensional incompressible viscous flow with distorted free surface is reported. The numerical simulation is carried out through the CIP (Constrained Interpolation Profile)-based method, which is described in the paper. A more accurate interface capturing scheme, the VOF/WLIC scheme (VOF: Volume-of-Fluid; WLIC: weighed line interface calculation), is adopted as the interface capturing method. To assess the developed algorithm and its versatility, a selection of test problems are examined, i.e. the square wave propagation, the Zalesak’s rigid body rotation, dam breaking problem with and without obstacles, wave sloshing in an excited wave tank and interaction between extreme waves and a floating body. Excellent agreements are obtained when numerical results are compared with available analytical, experimental, and other numerical results. These examples demonstrate that the use of the VOF/WLIC scheme in the free surface capturing makes better results and also the proposed CIP-based model is c