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A wedge with a mass of 241 kg and an initial velocity of 6.15 m/s is dropped at t=0 into water. The full complete FSI problem is solved and the impact force and wedge velocity can be compared to the experience.

Animated Result

Fluid pressure fringes

dam

 

 

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$ Copyright, 2015 DYNAmore GmbH
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ICFD Free falling Wedge impact
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$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*MESH_VOLUME
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$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*ICFD_DATABASE_DRAG
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*ICFD_DATABASE_DRAG
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&dt_plot
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Description

A  wedge with a mass of 241 kg and an initial velocity of 6.15 m/s is dropped at t=0 into water. The full complete FSI problem is solved and the impact force and wedge velocity can be compared to the experience.

References :

[1] K. M. T. Kleefsman, G. Fekken, A. E. P. Veldman, B. Iwanowski, and
B. Buchner, “A volume-of-fluid based simulation method for wave
impact problems,” J. Comput. Phys., vol. 206, pp. 363–393, June
2005.

[2] R. Zhao and O. Faltinsen, “Water entry of two-dimensional bodies,”
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 246, pp. 593–612, 1 1993.

[3] S. Wang, “Assessment of slam induced loads on two dimensional
wedges and ship sections,” Master’s thesis, Instituto Superior Tecnico,
Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Lisbon,Portugal, 2011.

[4] R. Marcer, C. Berhault, C. de Jouette, N. Moirod, and L. Shen,
“Validation of cfd codes for slamming,” (Lisbon, Portugal), V
European Conference on Computation Fluid Dynamics, June 2010.

[5] X. Mei, Y. Liu, and D. K. Yue, “On the water impact of general
two-dimensional sections,” Applied Ocean Research, vol. 21, no. 1,
pp. 1 – 15, 1999.