Computational Fluid Dynamics in Marine Environments

Dear Colleagues,

In marine environments, surface and internal waves, wind, currents, and sea ice occur, and these are some of the most important sources of dynamic load on marine structures. An understanding of marine environments and their interactions with structures, the seabed, and ocean-land boundaries is of great importance in both fundamental research and engineering applications. Computational fluid dynamics techniques, which are undergoing rapid development due to advances in computer science and numerical methods, can accurately and efficiently predict fluid dynamics and the complex interactions between marine environments and ocean structures. With the improvement and development of new numerical models for the simulation of marine environments (such as mesh-based and meshless numerical models and high-performance parallel computing), advanced applications of numerical methods for simulating complex marine environments, including wind, waves, currents, and sea ice, are key issues that need to be further addressed. We welcome high-quality research papers and reviews of recent developments in computational fluid dynamics in marine environments.

This Special Issue of Marine Science and Engineering, entitled "Computational Fluid Dynamics in Marine Environments", aims to collect contributions that present novel numerical models and methods (e.g., numerical algorithms, problem-solving procedures, and parallel acceleration techniques) and that utilize computational fluid dynamics methods in fields related to the marine environment.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• The development and validation of new numerical methods;
• Numerical studies on the main processes in waves, wind, currents, and sea ice, and particularly their complex coupled interactions with each other;
• Numerical studies on the interactions of marine environments with structures, the seabed, and ocean-land boundaries;
• Numerical simulations using high-performance computing for ocean environments;
• Numerical benchmark studies with experimental validations;
• The development of numerical models and applications for ocean, offshore, and arctic engineering applications.

Dr. Tiecheng Wu
Dr. Peng-Nan Sun
Guest Editors

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