Wave Absorption Study of Artificial Beach with CFD

摘要

We adopted Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to study the wavereflection off an artificial beach. In an offshore basin with finitedimension, wave generated can be reflected by the basin walls. Waveabsorption device is needed to minimize wave reflection to simulate therealistic wave impact on offshore structures in the ocean. We had builta computational model with both wave generator and wave absorbingbeach used in physical basins. The model was validated withexperiments and the results agreed well with experimental data. Thevalidated model was used to deduce the optimum length of theparabolic beach.