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40 Citations
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21 October 2019

Nonlinear wave interactions and superpositions among the different wave components and wave groups in a random sea sometimes produce rogue waves with extremely large wave heights that appear unexpectedly. A good understanding of the generation and ev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics for Ocean Surface Waves)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,258 Views
18 Pages

This study developed a two-dimensional fully nonlinear numerical wave tank (FN-NWT) to examine the nonlinear interaction between waves and dual submerged porous structures. Using the FN-NWT, not only reflection and transmission coefficients, but also...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Marine Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,400 Views
25 Pages

21 September 2020

Accurate and efficient numerical wave generation and absorption of two-dimensional nonlinear periodic waves traveling on a steady, uniform current were carried out in a potential, fully nonlinear numerical wave tank. The solver is based on the Β...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave Phenomena in Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,334 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2021

A space-time fully decoupled wavelet integral collocation method (WICM) with high-order accuracy is proposed for the solution of a class of nonlinear wave equations. With this method, wave equations with various nonlinearities are first transformed i...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,312 Views
9 Pages

26 August 2020

This paper proposes an indirect method to measure absolute acoustic nonlinearity parameters using surface acoustic waves by employing a fully non-contact laser-ultrasonic technique. For this purpose, the relationship between the ratio of relative aco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Approaches for Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,467 Views
28 Pages

15 February 2024

In this study, the performance of a wave energy converter (WEC) rotor under regular and irregular wave conditions was investigated using 3D nonlinear numerical models. Factors such as the power take-off (PTO) load torque, wave periods, spacing of mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics: Technologies and Applications for Renewable Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
1,359 Views
28 Pages

12 September 2025

A potential flow theory-based fully nonlinear 2D NWT is developed in the time domain to investigate the hydrodynamic performance of a submerged circular cylindrical WEC device under combined wave–current conditions. The hydrodynamic force on th...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Energy)
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  • Open Access
392 Views
20 Pages

Accurate prediction of nonlinear wave–structure interaction is essential for the safe design of coastal structures. In this study, a fully nonlinear high-order spectral numerical wave tank is developed to investigate nonlinear wave interaction...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,445 Views
29 Pages

15 December 2020

In this article, a three-dimensional, fully nonlinear potential wave model is applied based on a curvilinear grid system. This model calculates the wave action on a fully/partially submerged vertical cylinder with or without a hollow zone. As basic v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave Interactions with Coastal Structures)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,649 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Investigation on Higher-Order Harmonic Waves Induced by a Submerged Inclined Plate

  • Zhimin Zhou,
  • Yawei Sun,
  • Lifen Chen,
  • Dezhi Ning and
  • Sulisz Wojciech

In this paper, a two-dimensional time-domain numerical flume has been established to model and investigate nonlinear interactions between nonlinear surface waves and a submerged inclined thin plate. The model solves the Laplace equation and the fully...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,091 Views
13 Pages

4 November 2021

This paper describes a numerical investigation of ripples generated on the front face of deep-water gravity waves progressing on a vertically sheared current with the linearly changing horizontal velocity distribution, namely parasitic capillary wave...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,407 Views
19 Pages

22 May 2025

Offshore wind turbines serve as critical infrastructure components in marine renewable energy systems, enabling sustainable energy extraction within offshore engineering frameworks. Monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines in deep-water enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Ocean Engineering and the Development and Utilization of Marine Renewable Energy)
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  • Open Access
77 Citations
8,992 Views
12 Pages

7 September 2017

The performance of a dual-chamber Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is considered in the present study. The device has two sub-chambers with a shared orifice. A two-dimensional (2D) fully nonlinear numerical wave flume based...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,428 Views
19 Pages

24 June 2025

The remote sensing inversion of internal solitary waves (ISWs) enables the retrieval of ISW parameters and facilitates the analysis of their spatial variability. In this study, we utilize continuous optical imagery from the FY-4B satellite to extract...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Satellite Remote Sensing for Ocean and Coastal Environment Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,515 Views
36 Pages

Highly Accurate Experimental Heave Decay Tests with a Floating Sphere: A Public Benchmark Dataset for Model Validation of Fluid–Structure Interaction

  • Morten Bech Kramer,
  • Jacob Andersen,
  • Sarah Thomas,
  • Flemming Buus Bendixen and ,
  • Harry Bingham,
  • Robert Read,
  • Nikolaj Holk,
  • Edward Ransley,
  • Scott Brown and
  • Claes Eskilsson
  • + 11 authors+ 6 authors

6 January 2021

Highly accurate and precise heave decay tests on a sphere with a diameter of 300 mm were completed in a meticulously designed test setup in the wave basin in the Ocean and Coastal Engineering Laboratory at Aalborg University, Denmark. The tests were...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave Energy System Hydrodynamics Modeling and Application of High-Performance Computing)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,765 Views
25 Pages

The “ringing” response of a monopile foundation to focused wave groups was investigated in this study. Such responses are of practical interest in the context of offshore wind turbine foundations. Moderately steep transient focused wave groups were g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Numerical Methods for Complicated and Violent Flows)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,434 Views
21 Pages

Soliton Turbulence in Approximate and Exact Models for Deep Water Waves

  • Dmitry Kachulin,
  • Alexander Dyachenko and
  • Vladimir Zakharov

10 May 2020

We investigate and compare soliton turbulence appearing as a result of modulational instability of the homogeneous wave train in three nonlinear models for surface gravity waves: the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, the super compact Zakharov equ...

(This article belongs to the Collection Geophysical Fluid Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,908 Views
12 Pages

Physics of Traveling Waves in Shallow Water Environment

  • Igor Shugan,
  • Sergey Kuznetsov,
  • Yana Saprykina and
  • Yang-Yih Chen

22 October 2021

We present a study of the physical characteristics of traveling waves at shallow and intermediate water depths. The main subject of study is to the influence of nonlinearity on the dispersion properties of waves, their limiting heights and steepness,...

(This article belongs to the Section Oceans and Coastal Zones)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,255 Views
22 Pages

21 March 2022

The propagation of nonlinear water waves under complex wave conditions is the key issue of hydrodynamics both in coastal and ocean engineering, which is significant in the prediction of strongly nonlinear phenomena regarding wave–structure inte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,351 Views
14 Pages

26 July 2018

A 2D nonlinear numerical wave flume is developed to investigate the wave train impact on a vertical seawall. Fully nonlinear kinematic and dynamic boundary conditions are satisfied on the instantaneous free surface. Cases of single-, double- and mult...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Application of Hydrologic Analysis in Disaster Prevention)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,578 Views
21 Pages

Interactions of Coherent Structures on the Surface of Deep Water

  • Dmitry Kachulin,
  • Alexander Dyachenko and
  • Andrey Gelash

We numerically investigate pairwise collisions of solitary wave structures on the surface of deep water—breathers. These breathers are spatially localised coherent groups of surface gravity waves which propagate so that their envelopes are stab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Wave Hydrodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,322 Views
21 Pages

Ocean Energy Systems Wave Energy Modelling Task: Modelling, Verification and Validation of Wave Energy Converters

  • Fabian Wendt,
  • Kim Nielsen,
  • Yi-Hsiang Yu,
  • Harry Bingham and ,
  • Claes Eskilsson,
  • Morten Kramer,
  • Aurélien Babarit,
  • Tim Bunnik,
  • Ronan Costello and
  • Imai Yasutaka
  • + 38 authors+ 33 authors

25 October 2019

The International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme for Ocean Energy Systems (OES) initiated the OES Wave Energy Conversion Modelling Task, which focused on the verification and validation of numerical models for simulating wave energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,055 Views
22 Pages

Phase Convergence and Crest Enhancement of Modulated Wave Trains

  • Hidetaka Houtani,
  • Hiroshi Sawada and
  • Takuji Waseda

11 August 2022

The Akhmediev breather (AB) solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) shows that the maximum crest height of modulated wave trains reaches triple the initial amplitude as a consequence of nonlinear long-term evolution. Several fully...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Wave Hydrodynamics, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,831 Views
31 Pages

21 August 2024

Nonlinear distinct models have wide applications in various fields of science and engineering. The present research uses the mapping and generalized Riccati equation mapping methods to address the exact solutions for the nonlinear Klein–Gordon...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,466 Views
26 Pages

Modeling Rip Current Systems around Multiple Submerged Breakwaters

  • Jie Xu,
  • Yuchuan Wang,
  • Baoying Mu,
  • Huan Du and ,
  • Yanlei Li,
  • Zaijin You,
  • Sheng Yan and
  • Lixin Lu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 September 2024

Multiple submerged breakwaters (MSBWs) are commonly used coastal protection structures due to their specific advantages over the emerged ones. Rip currents, as the inevitable natural hazard in the gaps of these constructions, are investigated numeric...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,937 Views
22 Pages

Comparison of Nonlinear Wave-Loading Models on Rigid Cylinders in Regular Waves

  • Agota Mockutė,
  • Enzo Marino,
  • Claudio Lugni and
  • Claudio Borri

23 October 2019

Monopiles able to support very large offshore wind turbines are slender structures susceptible to nonlinear resonant phenomena. With the aim to better understand and model the wave-loading on these structures in very steep waves where ringing occurs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Renewable Energies: From Technological Advancements to Environmental Impact Assessment)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,934 Views
13 Pages

28 October 2023

This work presents the results of a direct numerical simulation of the nonlinear free surface evolution of a finite-depth fluid with a linear shear flow under the action of horizontal electric fields. The method of time-dependent conformal transforma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Analytical Study of Fluid Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,194 Views
20 Pages

Nonlinear Effects on the Formation of Large Random Wave Events

  • George Spiliotopoulos and
  • Vanessa Katsardi

This work aims to highlight the effects of nonlinearity on the crest shape of large directional water wave events. To simulate such events, we chose to focus frequencies on a pre-determined time step over a wavefield with randomised phases, running t...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2,301 Views
19 Pages

27 July 2023

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the second-order perturbation theory applied to the Navier–Stokes equations governing free surface flows. We focus on gravity–capillary surface waves in incompressible viscous fluids of fini...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,484 Views
22 Pages

Wind Wave Growth and Dissipation in a Narrow, Fetch-Limited Estuary: Long Island Sound

  • Amin Ilia,
  • Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen,
  • Grant McCardell and
  • James O’Donnell

The geometry of the Long Island Sound (LIS) renders the wave field fetch-limited and leads to marked differences between western and eastern areas. The mechanisms that contribute to the formation and dissipation of waves in the LIS are not well under...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
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  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,196 Views
24 Pages

UBathy: A New Approach for Bathymetric Inversion from Video Imagery

  • Gonzalo Simarro,
  • Daniel Calvete,
  • Pau Luque,
  • Alejandro Orfila and
  • Francesca Ribas

20 November 2019

A new approach to infer the bathymetry from coastal video monitoring systems is presented. The methodology uses principal component analysis of the Hilbert transform of video images to obtain the components of the wave propagation field and their cor...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
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  • Open Access
2,948 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2020

Wave reflection and wave trapping can lead to long wave run-up resonance. After reviewing the theory of run-up resonance in the framework of the linear shallow water equations, we perform numerical simulations of periodic waves incident on a linearly...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,303 Views
16 Pages

Estimating wave-breaking indexes such as wave height and water depth is essential to understanding the location and scale of the breaking wave. Therefore, numerous wave-flume laboratory experiments have been conducted to develop empirical wave-breaki...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Modelling for Coastal-Ocean Environments and Disasters)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,294 Views
14 Pages

10 January 2022

In the present work, a Boussinesq-type numerical model is developed for the simulation of nonlinear wave-heaving cylinder interaction. The wave model is able to describe the propagation of fully dispersive and weakly nonlinear waves over any finite w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A New Water-Energy Nexus: The Transition to Sustainable Energy)
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  • Open Access
666 Views
29 Pages

Phase-resolved wave estimation during operation of floating structures based on motion measurements provides an efficient, low-cost approach to enhancing operations. Prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) enable the reconstruction of wave profiles...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
698 Views
26 Pages

High-Order Line-Soliton Interactions and Anomalous Scattering of Lumps in a (2+1)-Dimensional Reverse Space–Time Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

  • Meng’en Wang,
  • Yichao Wang,
  • Guangmei Wei,
  • Haoqing Chen and ,
  • Chunrui Fu and
  • Hanyue Deng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 April 2026

This study presents a systematic investigation of nonlinear wave interactions in a (2+1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a space–time-symmetric potential. We focus on the interaction dynamics of high-order line-soliton solu...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,608 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2020

Surface water waves is an important research topic in coastal and ocean engineering due to its influences on various human activities. In this study, our purpose is to gain a deeper insight on the effects of non-hydrostatic (NHS) pressure on surface...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave and Tide Modelling in Coastal and Ocean Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,751 Views
19 Pages

A Numerical Implementation of a Nonlinear Mild Slope Model for Shoaling Directional Waves

  • Justin R. Davis,
  • Alex Sheremet,
  • Miao Tian and
  • Saurabh Saxena

25 February 2014

We describe the numerical implementation of a phase-resolving, nonlinear spectral model for shoaling directional waves over a mild sloping beach with straight parallel isobaths. The model accounts for non-linear, quadratic (triad) wave interactions a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 13th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,423 Views
11 Pages

13 October 2022

Multicomponent plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysics and space plasma environments. In the present manuscript, we assumed a dusty plasma system consisting of negative and positive dust species and kappa-distributed electrons and ions. The analysis i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Plasma Technology and Its Applications)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,366 Views
13 Pages

4 August 2022

We derive the anti dissipative Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) equations in the context of nonlinear dynamics of surface water waves under wind forcing, in finite depth. The anti-dissipation occurs du to the continuos transfer of wind energy to water surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Wave Hydrodynamics, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,208 Views
15 Pages

7 January 2025

This work numerically investigates the fully nonlinear evolution of the free surface of a deep non-conducting liquid in a strong tangential electric field based on the method of dynamic conformal transformations. Direct numerical simulation revealed...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,118 Views
31 Pages

Investigation on Ship Hydroelastic Vibrational Responses in Waves

  • Haicheng Yu,
  • Yi Xia,
  • Jialong Jiao and
  • Huilong Ren

21 November 2018

The hydroelastic vibrational responses of a large ship sailing in regular and irregular head waves are investigated numerically and experimentally. A 3D time-domain nonlinear hydroelastic mathematical model is established in which the hydrostatic res...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
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  • Open Access
909 Views
27 Pages

26 February 2025

We consider time domain acoustic scattering from a bounded homogeneous penetrable obstacle. The problem is reduced to a system of time-dependent integral equations on the boundary of the scatter. Our aim is to determine the location and shape of the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,970 Views
14 Pages

Seabed Liquefaction around Pipeline with Backfilling Trench Subjected to Strong Earthquake Motions

  • Qiuzhe Wang,
  • Jiang Bian,
  • Wenting Huang,
  • Qingrui Lu and ,
  • Kai Zhao and
  • Zhaoyan Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 October 2022

As an indispensable part of the lifeline for the offshore gas and oil industry, submarine pipelines under long-term marine environmental loadings have historically been susceptible to earthquakes. This study investigates the impact of trench backfill...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earthquake Engineering Technology and Its Application)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,276 Views
15 Pages

Hydrodynamic Investigation on a Land-Fixed OWC Wave Energy Device under Irregular Waves

  • Zhimin Zhou,
  • Song Ke,
  • Rongquan Wang,
  • Robert Mayon and
  • Dezhi Ning

10 March 2022

The hydrodynamic response of a land-based oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter under various irregular wave conditions is investigated numerically. Based on the potential flow theory, a two-dimensional fully nonlinear numerical wave f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Study on Wave Energy Converters)
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  • Open Access
833 Views
25 Pages

Photovoltaic systems deployed on large floating platforms in nearshore waters are strongly influenced by hydroelastic effects, nonlinear shallow-water waves, and variable bathymetry. This study develops a time-domain hydroelastic framework that coupl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Analysis of Ship and Offshore Structures)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,342 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2021

Numerical models are useful tools for studying complex wave–wave and wave–current interactions in coastal areas. They are also very useful for assessing the potential risks of flooding, hydrodynamic actions on coastal protection structures, bathymetr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ocean and Coastal Modelling)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,064 Views
19 Pages

1 April 2025

The air separation process is an important industrial process for the production of high-purity nitrogen and oxygen, representing the level of technological development in a country’s chemical industry. It has high energy consumption but very l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer Phenomena in Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
805 Views
38 Pages

Nonlinear Motion Analysis of Floating Bodies in Waves Using the MPS Method

  • Xianglong Fu,
  • Di Ren,
  • Jun Soo Park,
  • Xiangxi Han and ,
  • Junlong Su,
  • Zhanbin Meng and
  • Kunpeng Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 April 2026

This paper develops a two-dimensional fully Lagrangian meshless fluid–structure interaction solver by integrating the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) method with continuum mechanics to investigate the nonlinear interaction between waves and...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
836 Views
28 Pages

This paper presents a computational study of wave–bathymetry and wave–structure interaction problems using advanced numerical techniques based on high-fidelity, two-phase Navier–Stokes (TpNS) flow and reduced-order, fully nonlinear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wave–Structure–Seabed Interaction)

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