A BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR THE INTERACTION OF FREE-SURFACE WAVES WITH A VERY LARGE FLOATING FLEXIBLE PLATFORM

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 943-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.J. HERMANS
Author(s):  
L. Gaul

Abstract Calculation of the dynamic response of sensitive structures like foundations for vibrating machinery requires to take the interaction with subsoil into account. Structures and soil are discretized by boundary elements and coupled by a substructure technique. Viscoelastic constitutive equations contain fractional time derivatives. Surface waves generated by machine foundations and diffracted by embedded structures and soil inhomogeneities are analyzed by conventional and optoelectronic experimental techniques and calculated by the boundary element method (BEM).


2014 ◽  
Vol 644-650 ◽  
pp. 628-631
Author(s):  
Ke Yi Li ◽  
Zhong Cai Pei

When the bubble moves in the vicinity of a free surface, the movement will be affected by the buoyancy and the Bjerknes effect. Blake and Gibson proposed the criterion which determined the motion direction of the jet and the dynamics of bubble. They proposed the jet wouldn’t be formed in the condition that . Based on the potential flow theory, boundary element method (BEM) is used to calculate three typical examples in this paper in order to study the dynamics of the bubble under the combined action of the Bjerknes effect of the free surface and the buoyancy. It is found out during the analysis that the Blake criterion is applicable to predict the conditions that and .


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