An Introduction to Numerical Wave Tanks (NWTs)

Experimental tests in marine Labs have some difficulties such as expensive instruments lack of equipment and time-consuming procedures. However one of the well-known strategies to investigate different phenomena is numerical simulations. A study of marine structure interaction with waves is significantly dependent on appropriate wave modeling. Accordingly researchers are seeking to develop proper numerical wave tanks (NWTs) in predicting the interaction of marine structures with waves. In the present book after an introduction and CFD formulations of the NWTs we presented major issues related to numerical wave tank modeling. Afterward different scenarios for modeling NWTs are proposed in the open-source CFD package of OpenFOAM. The source codes of NWTs solvers are also presented in the book’s Appendix. This book can be appropriate guidance for researchers and engineers in the context of marine engineering and coastal ports and marine structures engineering.