Citation

Grice JR, Taylor PH, Taylor RE. Philos. Transact. A Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 2015; 373(2033): ePub.

Affiliation

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Royal Society Publishing)

DOI

10.1098/rsta.2014.0113

PMID

25512584

Abstract

Extreme wave-structure interactions are investigated using second-order diffraction theory. The statistics of surface elevation around a multi-column structure are collected using Monte Carlo-type simulations for severe sea states. Within the footprint of a realistic four-column structure, we find that the presence of the structure can give rise to extreme crest elevations greater than twice those at the same return period in the incident wave field. Much of this extra elevation is associated with the excitation of second-order near-trapped modes. A 'designer' incident wave can be defined at each point around the structure for a given sea state as the average input wave to produce extreme crest elevations at a given return period, and we show that this wave can be simply vertically scaled to estimate the response at other return periods.

Language: en