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Modeling of Ship Wave Generation for NOWT-PARI and Its Verification- To Apply the Model for Port and Harbor Operation -

Publication year Port and Airport Research Institute Technical Note 1345 2018.06
Author(s) Katsuya HIRAYAMA, Naoto HIGUCHI, Junya NAGANUMA
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Coastal and Ocean Engineering Field Wave Group
Executive Summary

In recent busy ports and harbors, their tranquility must be affected with not only storm waves propageted from outside but also harbor waves generated by inside ship navigation. In this study, a new ship wave generation method is developed and installed to a Boussinesq-type wave transformation model, considering expandability of setting of ship navigation channels and applicability for variable ship shape. For approximation of ship shape, not only the modified parabolic function but also the Lewis-Form are used. The Lewis model can reproduce results of past model experiments in over same accuracy on comparison with the parabolic model. In addition, the horizontal 2D model for ship wave generation are introduced to deal with a flexible layout of navigation channel in a harbor. Besides, ship waves generated at a turning point of navigation channel are newly measured with using a radio-controlled sailing model ship and a measurement system of the moved ship position. So, though these results could be almost represented by using the present models, a cause for overestimation of the maximum wave height at the outside of turning ship is not understood because the influence of sailing ship oscillation for ship wave generation is still not clear. On the other hand, the way to estimate with both the midship section coefficient: α and the tuning parameter of side fluxes generated by sailing ship: m are introduced in order to apply the present models to various ship shapes. Especially, it is proposed that “m” would be estimated with an interpolation among several calculation results of ship wave reproduction for model experiments, those are given to various ship properties and water depths. The verification with an estimation based on observation results, however, indicates that the present “m” may be under estimated for the actual scale. Therefore, it is required to consider viscous effect in the model experiments of ship wave, those are conducted by using self-sailing or towed various model ships. Key Words: Lewis-Form, Boussinesq model, ship wave, block coefficient, harbor tranquility

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