Wave breaking is one of the most violent phenomena of air-water interface interactions, producing strong turbulence with air bubbles, water droplets, jets and sprays. These phenomena commonly occur in ship flows and are one of the main sources of underwater noise and white-water wakes. The investigation of these phenomena is important in ship and ocean engineering. OpenFOAM is a valuable open source and continuum mechanics library for building multi-physics simulations and its use growing rapidly in both research and industry. This paper investigates the ability of OpenFOAM to simulate non-linear waves, wave transformation and breaking with k-ω SST-RANS model through the study of wave generation and propagation over a submerged bar.
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