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Impacts of sea-level rise on port facilities

  • Son, Chang-Bae;Kim, Chang-Je;Jang, Won-Yil;Matsubara, Yuhei;Noda, Hedeaki;Kim, Mi-Kum
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.173-177
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    • 2006
  • From the viewpoint of coastal hydrodynamics, one of the most important effects of global warming is a sea-level rise in coastal areas. In the present study, impacts on port facilities against sea-level rise were investigated. The sea-level rise causes the increase of the water depth, and it generates variations on the wave height, buoyancy, tidal system and nearshore current system and so on. The increase of water depth gives rise to the decrease of crown height of the structure and it causes increase of wave overtopping quantity. It may flood the port zone and its facilities, and may decrease harbor tranquility. It also leads to difficulties on navigation, mooring and loading/unloading at the port. Increase in water depth also causes increase of wave height in surf zone. This high wave makes structures unstable and may cause them to collapse during storm. In addition, increase in buoyant force due to sea-level rise also makes the gravity type structures unstable. Consequently, theses variations due to sea-level rise will cause functional deterioration of port facilities. In order to protect port facilities from the functional deterioration, reinforcement plan is required such as raising the crown height and increase in block weight and so on. Hence proper estimation method for the protection cost is necessary in order to protect port facilities efficiently. Moreover response strategies and integrated coastal zone management plan is required to maintain the function of port facilities. A simple estimation of cost for breakwaters in Korea was performed in the present study.

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Effect of the Slope Gradient of a Permeable Submerged Breakwater on Wave Field around It (투과성잠제의 비탈면경사가 주변 파동장에 미치는 영향)

  • Hur, Dong Soo;Choi, Dong Seok
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.2B
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    • pp.249-259
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    • 2008
  • The present paper studies the effect of the slope gradient of a fully permeable submerged breakwater using a newly developed numerical model that is able to consider the flow through a porous midium with inertial, laminar and turbulent resistance terms, i.e. simulate directly WAve-Structure (submerged breakwater)-Sand seabed interaction and can determine the eddy viscosity with LES turbulence model in 2-Dimensional wave field (LES-WASS-2D). The developed model was validated through the comparison with an existing experimental data, and further used for various numerical experiments in oder to investigate the complicated hydrodynamics on the varying slope gradient of permeable submerged breakwater. We found an acceptable phenomenon, as we expect intuitively, that reflection and transmission coefficients decrease simultaneously as slope gradient decrease. In addition, the breaking point, the circulation flow and mean vorticity around a submerged breakwater are throughly discussed.

Impacts of wave and tidal forcing on 3D nearshore processes on natural beaches. Part II: Sediment transport

  • Bakhtyar, R.;Dastgheib, A.;Roelvink, D.;Barry, D.A.
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.61-97
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    • 2016
  • This is the second of two papers on the 3D numerical modeling of nearshore hydro- and morphodynamics. In Part I, the focus was on surf and swash zone hydrodynamics in the cross-shore and longshore directions. Here, we consider nearshore processes with an emphasis on the effects of oceanic forcing and beach characteristics on sediment transport in the cross- and longshore directions, as well as on foreshore bathymetry changes. The Delft3D and XBeach models were used with four turbulence closures (viz., ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$, ${\kappa}-L$, ATM and H-LES) to solve the 3D Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flow as well as the beach morphology. The sediment transport module simulates both bed load and suspended load transport of non-cohesive sediments. Twenty sets of numerical experiments combining nine control parameters under a range of bed characteristics and incident wave and tidal conditions were simulated. For each case, the general morphological response in shore-normal and shore-parallel directions was presented. Numerical results showed that the ${\kappa}-{\varepsilon}$ and H-LES closure models yield similar results that are in better agreement with existing morphodynamic observations than the results of the other turbulence models. The simulations showed that wave forcing drives a sediment circulation pattern that results in bar and berm formation. However, together with wave forcing, tides modulate the predicted nearshore sediment dynamics. The combination of tides and wave action has a notable effect on longshore suspended sediment transport fluxes, relative to wave action alone. The model's ability to predict sediment transport under propagation of obliquely incident wave conditions underscores its potential for understanding the evolution of beach morphology at field scale. For example, the results of the model confirmed that the wave characteristics have a considerable effect on the cumulative erosion/deposition, cross-shore distribution of longshore sediment transport and transport rate across and along the beach face. In addition, for the same type of oceanic forcing, the beach morphology exhibits different erosive characteristics depending on grain size (e.g., foreshore profile evolution is erosive or accretive on fine or coarse sand beaches, respectively). Decreasing wave height increases the proportion of onshore to offshore fluxes, almost reaching a neutral net balance. The sediment movement increases with wave height, which is the dominant factor controlling the beach face shape.

Modeling of Sediment and Phosphorous Transport in a River Channel (하천 내 유사와 인 이동에 관한 모델링)

  • Kim, Kyunghyun
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.332-342
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    • 2010
  • A model has been developed to investigate in-river sediment and phosphorus dynamics. This advective-dispersive model is coupled with hydrodynamics and sediment transport submodels to simulate suspended sediment, total dissolved phosphorus, total phosphorus, and particulate phosphorus concentrations under unsteady flow conditions. It emphasizes sediment and phosphorus dynamics in unsteady flow conditions, in which the study differs from many previous solute transport studies, conducted in relatively steady flow conditions. The diffusion wave approaximation was employed for unsteady flow simulations. The first-order adsorption and linear adsorption isotherm model was used on the basis of the three-layered riverbed submodel with riverbed sediment exchange and erosion/deposition processes. Various numerical methods were tested to select a method that had minimal numerical dispersion under unsteady flow conditions. The responses of the model to the change of model parameter values were tested as well.

Resonant response of spar-type floating platform in coupled heave and pitch motion

  • Choi, E.Y.;Cho, J.R.;Jeong, W.B.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.65 no.5
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    • pp.513-521
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, the resonance response of spar-type floating platform in coupled heave and pitch motion is investigated using a CPU time-effective numerical method. A coupled nonlinear 2-DOF equation of motion is derived based on the potential wave theory and the rigid-body hydrodynamics. The transient responses are solved by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta (RK4) method and transformed to the frequency responses by the digital Fourier transform (DFT), and the first-order approximation of heave response is analytically derived. Through the numerical experiments, the theoretical derivation and the numerical formulation are verified from the comparison with the commercial software AQWA. And, the frequencies of resonance arising from the nonlinear coupling between heave and pitch motions are investigated and justified from the comparison with the analytically derived first-order approximation of heave response.

Review on the Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Oil Skimmers (유회수기의 유체역학적 특성)

  • Hyun Beom-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.66-82
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    • 1998
  • The hydrodynamic characteristics of oil skimmers are reviewed. The paper consists of (1) introduction of the general aspects of oil skimmers, including kinds, performance indices, current market situations, (2) the analysis of factors affecting oil- skimming, (3) the review of existing papers with a special focus on hydrodynamic problem and finally (4) conclusions and some suggestions. The purpose of this paper is to draw hydrodynamists' attentions on oil skimmer, more broadly on marine oil spill.

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Application of the Modified Reactive SPH Method for Simulating Explosions

  • Sirotkin, Fedir V.;Yoh, Jai-Ick
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.922-925
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    • 2011
  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a Lagrangian method widely used for the modeling fluid flows. Simulations of explosions require, besides the hydrodynamic equations, a realistic equation of state, an energy source term, and a set of chemical kinetic equations to follow the composition changes of the gas during the explosion. The performance of the hydrodynamic equations is investigated in the framework of the Sedov-Taylor blast-wave. The implementation of chemical kinetic equations and equation of state is studied with 1D detonation of TNT slab. Our results are compared to those from analytical and experimental studies.

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Response and control of jacket structure with magneto-rheological damper at multiple locations/combinations

  • Syed, Khaja A.A.;Kumar, Deepak
    • Ocean Systems Engineering
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.201-221
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    • 2018
  • In this paper a comprehensive study for the structural control of Jacket platform with Magneto-Rheological (MR) damper is presented. The control is implemented as a closed loop feedback of the applied voltage in the MR Damper using fuzzy logic. Nine cases of combinations with MR damper are presented to complete the work. The selection of the MR damper (RD 1005-3) is based on the operating parameters (i.e., the range of frequency and displacement). Bingham model is used to obtain the control forces. The damping co-efficient of the model is obtained using empirical relationship between the voltage in the MR damper and input velocity from the structural members. The force acting on the structure is obtained from Morison equation using P-M spectrum. The results show that the reliable control was obtained when there was a continuous connection of multiple MR dampers with the lower levels of the structure. Independent MR dampers at different levels provided control within a range, while the MR dampers placed at alternate positions gave very high control.

Exact Solution on the Vertical Hydro-elastic Responses of Ships having Uniform Sectional Properties (균일단면 선박의 유탄성 수직응답에 대한 해석해)

  • Park, In-Kyu;Jung, Jong-Jin;A. Korobkin
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2004
  • Exact solution on the vertical responses of ships having uniform sectional properties in waves is derived. Boundary value problem consisted of Timoshenko beam equation and free-free end condition is solved analytically. The responses are assumed as linear and wave loads are calculated by using strip method. Vertical bending moment, shear force and deflection are calculated. The developed analysis model is used for the benchmark test of the numerical codes in this problem. Also the application on the preliminary design of barge-like ships and VLFS (Very Large Floating Structure) is expected.

The Effect of Hull Forms on the Rolling Motion (선형(船型)이 횡요운동(橫搖運動)에 미치는 영향(影響))

  • B.K.,Woo;J.D.,Koo
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.41-52
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    • 1971
  • In this paper, the authors describe not only the linear-theoretical considerations of the hull forms which many schalors have been investigating by the hydrodynamics as to the rolling ships in the waves, but also measure the rolling angles of the models, the coefficients of the effective wave slopes, the forced rolling moments by the waves, the extinctive curves, and the amplitudes of the waves in view of changing both the drafts and the metacentres so that they may study the inclinations of models in the grinoll motion. Owing to the conclusions of these studies, we can learn the fact that the experimental results of the models in the waves agree almost to the linear-theoretical subjects.

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