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Islam, H. and Guedes Soares, C. (2021), “Assessment of uncertainty in the CFD simulation of the wave-induced loads on a vertical cylinder”, Marine Structures, Vol. 80, 103088.
The paper addresses different uncertainty analysis methods commonly used for uncertainty quantification in CFD studies and compares a constant CourantFriedrichsLewy (CFL) number based approach for uncertainty estimation to the ITTC recommended grid and time-independent procedures. Four different uncertainty estimation procedures are presented and discussed. To compare their performance and better understand CFD related uncertainty quantification in wave load simulations on offshore structures, the methods are applied to a case study of the wave loads on a fixed vertical cylinder. The numerical or CFD wave tank is generated using the open-source CFD toolkit OpenFOAM. Uncertainty is assessed for the case study using four different uncertainty estimation procedures for verification and later, validation is attempted by comparing the CFD results with experiments. The study concludes that a constant CFL number based uncertainty study provides more stable results and is better suited for uncertainty estimation in CFD than the ITTC recommended individual grid and time step uncertainty study.
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