Towards a Practical Application of Numerical Models to Predict Wave-Structure Interaction

An Initial Validation

Conference paper (2014)
Department
Hydraulic Engineering (CEG) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

15-06-2014

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ICCE 2014: Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Seoul, Korea, 15-20 June 2014

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Department

Hydraulic Engineering

Abstract

A more detailed understanding of porous flow inside a rubble-mound structure may have potential benefits in breakwater design. Numerical models are expected to be a useful additional research tool in this field, provided that their calculation results can be validated against measurements. This paper presents the results of a systematic effort to validate a set of different numerical models for a strongly simplified model set-up. The results of this effort will be used to select models for a next stage in which the complexity of the model set-up is increased. By means of this step-by-step approach a good insight in the capabilities and limitations of the various models is achieved.