High-Fidelity Modeling of Wave-Induced Forces and Structural Response

Series: SimCenter Community Roundtables Working Group: Wind and Water Simulation

Host: Mike Motley, University of Washington
Date: November 25, 2024

Advances in regional scale modeling of tsunami and storm surge have provided interested stakeholders with tools to estimate flow conditions at critical locations. These tools have enabled engineers and community leaders to provide guidance to residents on the hazard risk and develop generalized approximations of the fluid and debris induced forces using fundamental principles of fluid statics and dynamics. For critical structures (e.g., evacuation towers), new advances in coastal hazard modeling allow designers to develop more comprehensive loading profiles and better understand the interactions between the flow and an individual structure or even individual structural components. As interest in these problems grows, fluid modelers are applying a number of disparate approaches to solving various components of the complex fluid-debris-structure interaction phenomena. In this community roundtable, invited speakers will present several different approaches to this problem and how engineers may be able to leverage these new capabilities for improved predictions for load and response, followed by community discussion of the associated challenges in extending these models for broader application.

Speakers:
Nils Goseberg, Technical Universitat Braunschweig
Barbara Simpson, Stanford University
Andrew Winter, Siemens Digital Industries Software