FARSI is fortran code developed to study Fluid And Renewable Structure Interaction (FARSI) problems. The code originally developed to study wave forces on floating wind turbines. It has been used later to study other offshore structures, such as wave energy convertor, monopile and barge. The model uses finite volume approach and explicit method to solve Navier-Stokes equations, level set method for tracking the wave's free surface and immersed boundary method to study solid-fluid interaction.
All the questions regarding this code can be sent to nematba@ucr.edu (Ali Nematbakhsh). For more information about the details of the code see the following papers:
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Nematbakhsh, A., Olinger, D. J., and Tryggvason, G., 2013. “A nonlinear computational model for floating wind turbines”. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 135(12), 121103 (13 pages) Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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Nematbakhsh, A., Olinger, D. J., and Tryggvason, G., 2014 “Nonlinear simulation of a spar buoy floating wind turbine under extreme ocean conditions”. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 6(3), 033121 (20 pages) Publisher: American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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Nematbakhsh, A., Bachynski, E. E., Gao Z. and Moan T., 2015. “Comparison of wave loads effects on a TLP wind turbine by using Computational Fluid Dynamics and potential flow theory approaches”, Applied Ocean Research, 53. 142-154 Publisher: Elsevier
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Nematbakhsh, A., Gao Z. and Moan T., 2017 “A CFD based numerical wave tank to study wave responses of fixed and floating offshore structures. Journal of offshore mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 139(3), 031702 (11pages)
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)