Wave Modeling
Poster
Weizhi Wang
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Arun Kamath, PhD
Post Doc
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU Trondheim
Hans Bihs
Associate Professor
NTNU Trondheim
Dramatic water depth change, deep water condition, irregular coastline and the mixture of ocean swell and local wind-generated wave make the numerical simulation in Norwegian fjords challenging. A 3D CFD model REEF3D is used to simulation the regular wave, unidirectional irregular wave and multi-directional irregular wave in such condition in a large-scale. The CFD simulations show detailed wave free-surface and wave transformations and demonstrate complex wave height distribution in the fjords. The comparison with spectral wave model address the importance of phase-resolved model in the coastal water.