Numerical simulation of fully nonlinear interaction between steep waves and 2D floating bodies using the QALE-FEM method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 666-692

  Yan, S ^a   Ma, Q W ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D floating bodies; Iterative procedure; Nonlinear water waves; QALE FEM; Spring analogy method

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

2D FLOATING BODY; ANALOGY METHOD; ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN EULERIAN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; FLOATING BODIES; FULLY NONLINEAR; ITERATIVE PROCEDURE; NONLINEAR WATER WAVES; QUASI ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SPRING ANALOGIES; SPRING ANALOGY METHOD;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 33846369185     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.06.046     Document Type: Article

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