Numerical Experimental Set-Up of Oil Containment by Rigid Floating Boom in Wave

Based on the Navier-Stokes equations for viscous, incompressible fluid and VOF method, the numerical experiment platform of oil containment by rigid floating boom in wave is established, utilizing the commercial CFD software FLUENT, and the waves are generated by defining the velocity of water particle on the inlet boundary. The volume of fluid (VOF) model is used to distinguish the three immiscible fluids (air, oil and water) and to track the interface between them. In this paper, a second order Stokes-wave with the relative wave height of 0.16 is selected as the incoming wave to simulate the shape of the oil slick and analyze the oil containment by rigid floating boom under this wave. The numerical simulation of the oil containment of the spilled oil on the sea under wave conditions is achieved. Numerical results of oil containment by boom in wave agree well with the corresponding researches and the real conditions. Compared to the traditional physics model experiment, the numerical experiment platform can be carried out with the advantages of low cost, easy reconstruction, unlimited to the model scale, high measuring accuracy and so on. It is shown that the present numerical platform is effective, reliable and accurate and can be applied to simulate the oil containment by booms in wave conditions.