CFD Simulations to Determine Wave Forces on a Row of Cylinders
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The open source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model REEF3D is used to simulate interaction of low steepness linear waves and high steepness 5th-order Stokes waves with a single cylinder and linear arrays of two, three, four and five large cylinders. The wave forces on any cylinder in the array is seen to generally increase with the inclusion of additional downstream cylinders in both cases. The wave forces on the downstream cylinders also reduce along the length of the array and the most downstream cylinder experiences the least forces in the array. The formation of standing waves in between the cylinders is observed in the case of low steepness incident waves. The wave forces on the most downstream cylinder in the array is almost equal to the force on a single cylinder in the case of low steepness incident waves and less than the force on a single cylinder in the case of high steepness incident waves