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Numerical analysis of a vessel-shaped offshore fish farm
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)The aquaculture industry is aiming to move fish farms from nearshore areas to open seas because of many attractive advantages in the open water. However, one major challenge is to design the structure to withstand the ... -
Numerical analysis of interference between an otter trawl board and a pipe-in-pipe system
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-29)Subsea pipelines are likely to be exposed to fishing activity, which may results in trawl gear interacting with a pipeline. The interaction is classified into impact, pull-over and a special case called hooking. The trawl ... -
Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Offshore Turbulent Wind Inflow on the Response of a Spar Wind Turbine
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Turbulent wind at offshore sites is known as the main cause for fatigue on offshore wind turbine components. Numerical simulations are commonly used to predict the loads and motions of floating offshore wind turbines; ... -
Numerical analysis of the influence of friction conditions on the pile-up effect in Vickers hardness measurements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Vickers indentation load-depth curve may be used to determine basic mechanical properties of metallic materials such as hardness, yield stress, modulus of elasticity, and elastic and plastic work. The pile-up phenomenon ... -
Numerical analysis of vortex shedding
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)This report deals with structural vibrations of wind exposed structures caused by the vortex shedding phenomena. The theory of vortex shedding and the field of study called aeroelastisity are presented. A case study of ... -
Numerical analysis on flow around a wall-mounted square structure using Dynamic Mode Decomposition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03)Numerical investigations of the flow around a wall-mounted square structure have been carried out by using three-dimensional Spalart-Allmaras Delayed Detached Eddy Simulations (SADDES). The Reynolds number based on the ... -
Numerical and analytical analysis of flow in stratified heterogeneous porous media.
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IEP/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-06)The groundwater flow through a porous media is well-researched to extend the basic knowledge in both academia and industry, specially the oil industry. The Boussinesq equation represents a water height of fluid spreads ... -
Numerical and analytical studies of ship deckhouse impact with steel and RC bridge girders
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Bridges crossing navigable waterways are under the threat of accidental collisions from passing ships. However, previous research focus was mainly placed on ship collision with bridge substructures while ship-bridge ... -
Numerical and analytical study of steady state and transient heat transfer in liquid filled dead legs
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)A dead leg is an inactive part of a process pipe, and it has been the cause of serious incidents due to liquid reaching its threshold value (TV) for freezing. The existing industrial approach for the design of dead legs ... -
Numerical evaluation of the axial capacity of cracked tubular members
(Master thesis, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the axial capacity of cracked tubular elements analytically and numerically and compare these with laboratory tests. The laboratory tests have been performed by a different student ... -
Numerical investigation of blast and fire response of secondary tunnel structures
(Master thesis, 2023)Submerged Floating Tube Bridges (SFTB) are evaluated as potential fixed links in the Ferry-Free E39 project led by the National Public Road Administration (NPRA). However, the risk of internal explosions and the impact of ... -
Numerical investigation of breaking wave loads on the downstream inclined cylinder under shelter effect from the upstream vertical cylinder
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Breaking waves interaction with two tandem cylinders are numerically studied using Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software OpenFOAM. The effects of transverse inclined angles of the downstream cylinder and separation ... -
Numerical Investigation of Flow around Two Tandem Cylinders in the Upper Transition Reynolds Number Regime Using Modal Analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Flow around two tandem cylinders at Re = 3.6 × 106 for different center-to-center spacing ratio (L/D) is investigated numerically using two-dimensional (2D) Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) equations combined ... -
Numerical Investigation of Non-Darcy Flow Regime Transitions in Shale Gas Production
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)Shale gas reservoirs are organic rich formations with often ultra-low permeability. Gas is stored in free and adsorbed form. Conventional Darcy flow cannot fully describe the gas transport in such porous media. It is thus ... -
Numerical investigation of scour beneath pipelines subjected to an oscillatory flow condition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)The present study carries out two-dimensional numerical simulations to investigate scour beneath a single pipeline and piggyback pipelines subjected to an oscillatory flow condition at a Keulegan–Carpenter (KC) number of ... -
Numerical investigation of the impacts of borehole breakouts on breakdown pressure
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Borehole breakouts appear in drilling and production operations when rock subjected to in situ stress experiences shear failure. However, if a borehole breakout occurs, the boundary of the borehole is no longer circular ... -
Numerical Investigation of Vortex-Induced Vibrations of a Flexible Riser with Staggered Buoyancy Elements
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)This paper presents a numerical algorithm used together with a Finite-Element based Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) prediction software VIVANA to obtain a hydrodynamic force coefficient database based on response measurements ... -
Numerical investigation of wave-plus-current induced scour beneath two submarine pipelines in tandem
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)Two-dimensional (2D) local scour beneath two submarine pipelines in tandem under wave-plus-current conditions is investigated numerically. A fully-coupled hydrodynamic and morphologic model based on unsteady Reynolds-averaged ... -
Numerical investigation of wind load acting on a ground fixed solar panel.
(Master thesis, 2022)The photovoltaic panels are one of the most important components to achieve the goal of decarbonization of the electricity and energy sectors. With the use of ANSYS Fluent, an advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ... -
Numerical Investigation on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Dual-Rotor Wind Turbines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Improving power output and reducing costs are crucial to the sustainable development of offshore wind power. In the present study, a dual-rotor wind turbine (DRWT) is proposed to improve wind energy capture efficiency by ...