Abstract
The study on strong nonlinear wave–structure interaction (WSI) is crucial in ocean engineering. The Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method is popular in this field because of its advantages in simulating free surface flow. However, to predict the details of WSI, a high resolution of particles is usually required, which results in a huge computational cost. In this paper, a potential-meshfree CFD weak coupling method based on the High Order Spectral (HOS) and SPH method is developed, which combines the advantages of the former in generating nonlinear waves quickly and accurately and the latter in adapting to strong nonlinear free surface problems. The accuracy of the coupling method was verified through the simulations of regular and irregular waves compared with experiment data. It shows the coupling method can effectively improve computational efficiency and extensively reduce the numerical dissipation. Furthermore, a simulation of the interaction between the focus wave and the floating body was conducted by using the coupling method, the original SPH method and the Constrained Interpolation Profile (CIP) method. Among all numerical methods, the coupling method is the best one for predicting the impact pressure of the floating body and is the only one that can capture the second impacting peak.
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