Oil Containment by Floating Boom under Wave-Current Coupling Condition I: Numerical Experimental Platform

Abstract

Based on the Navier-Stokes equations for viscous, incompressible fluid and analytic relaxation approach, the 2-D numerical wave and current tank of the viscous fluid with constant depth is established, the volume of fluid (VOF) model is used to track the free surface for simulating the oil containment by rigid floating boom under wave and current conditions, and the motion of boom is accomplished by the technique of dynamic mesh. Then the variation of the oil shape under pure current condition, coplanar current condition and counter current condition were numerically studied, the effects of wave parameters on oil shape before boom were analyzed. The computed results are in general agreement with those obtained from previous studies.