Wave Scattering Around a Vertical Cylinder: Fully Nonlinear Potential Flow Calculations Compared With Low Order Perturbation Results and Experiment

Abstract

A detailed description of a fully nonlinear numerical method for computing wave interaction effects around arbitrary marine structures is presented. The paper highlights application to one specific geometry: A single, fixed vertical truncated cylinder. The fully nonlinear computations are compared with linear and second-order nonlinear results obtained with the perturbation approach, as well as with experiments.