Wave Interaction With Piled Structures: Application With IH-FOAM Available to Purchase

This paper presents a numerical analysis of the interaction of waves with piles. A model called IH-FOAM, based on OpenFOAM^®, is used. IH-FOAM is able to simulate and to absorb waves in three-dimensional domains, reducing the computational cost and extending the range of applicability of the CFD modelling to the study of offshore and coastal structures. In this work, a detailed analysis of mono and multi-piled structures is carried out. Several piles layouts are studied Wave run-up and forces have been studied for the multi-piled structures. Those magnitudes have been compared with the single piled structure pointing out the difference in the wave induced hydrodynamics and the non-linear interaction between the waves and the structures. The work contained in this paper presents a first step which will be extended in the future to analyse more complex layouts and the effects of broken waves.