Background and activities
Arun Kamath obtained his PhD with the defense of the thesis titled "CFD based Investigation of Wave-Structure Interaction and Hydrodynamics of an Oscillating Water Column Device" in 2015 from NTNU. He is an alumus of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme -Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management (CoMEM) with studies at TU Delft, NTNU and UPC Barcelona.
He works with the open source CFD model REEF3D. His research interests include:
- CFD modeling
- Regular and Irregular wave kinematics, generation and propagation
- Non-breaking and breaking wave hydrodynamics
- Wave energy
- Floating bodies on waves
- Coastal engineering and management
- High performance computing (HPC)
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2018) Three-dimensional numerical modelling of wave-induced scour around piles in a side-by-side arrangement. Coastal Engineering. vol. 138.
- (2017) Numerical Investigation of Focused Waves and their Interaction with a Vertical Cylinder using REEF3D. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 139 (4).
- (2017) A Combined Level Set/Ghost Cell Immersed Boundary Representation for Simulations of Floating Bodies. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. vol. 83 (12).
- (2017) Energy transfer due to shoaling and decomposition of breaking and non-breaking waves over a submerged bar. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics. vol. 11 (1).
- (2017) Study of water impact and entry of a free falling wedge using computational fluid dynamics simulations. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. vol. 139 (3).
- (2017) Numerical simulation of free-surface waves past two semi-submerged horizontal circular cylinders in tandem. Marine Structures. vol. 52.
- (2016) A New Level Set Numerical Wave Tank with Improved Density Interpolation for Complex Wave Hydrodynamics. Computers & Fluids. vol. 140.
- (2016) Breaking wave interaction with tandem cylinders under different impact scenarios. Journal of waterway, port, coastal, and ocean engineering. vol. 142 (5).
- (2016) Breaking Wave Interaction with a Vertical Cylinder and the Effect of Breaker Location. Ocean Engineering. vol. 128.
- (2016) Upstream and Downstream Cylinder Influence on the Hydrodynamics of a Four Cylinder Group. Journal of waterway, port, coastal, and ocean engineering.
- (2015) Three-dimensional CFD modeling of wave scour around side-by-side and triangular arrangement of piles with REEF3D. Procedia Engineering. vol. 116 (1).
- (2015) CFD Investigations of Wave Interaction with a Pair of Large Tandem Cylinders. Ocean Engineering. vol. 108.
- (2015) Evaluating Wave Forces on Groups of Three and Nine Cylinders using a 3D Numerical Wave Tank. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics. vol. 9 (1).
- (2015) CFD Simulations to Determine Wave Forces on a Row of Cylinders. Procedia Engineering. vol. 116 (1).
- (2015) Numerical Investigations of the Hydrodynamics of an Oscillating Water Column Device. Ocean Engineering. vol. 102.
- (2015) Numerical Modeling of Power Take-off Damping in an Oscillating Water Column Device. International Journal of Marine Energy. vol. 10.
Artistic productions
- (2017) Cover Illustration for "Progress in Applied CFD – CFD2017". SINTEF Academic Press, Oslo, Norway. 2017.
Part of book/report
- (2019) Breaking Focused Waves Generated Using the Transient Wave Packet Method and the Breaking Impact Forces on a Vertical Cylinder. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018).
- (2019) Simulation of Floating Bodies in Waves and Mooring in a 3D Numerical Wave Tank using REEF3D. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018).
- (2018) Modelling and Simulation of Moored-floating Structures using the Tension-Element-Method. ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Volume 2: CFD and FSI.
- (2018) CFD Simulations of Multi-Directional Irregular Wave Interaction With a Large Cylinder. ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Volume 2: CFD and FSI.
- (2017) Extreme Wave Generation, Breaking and Impact Simulations With REEF3D. ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Volume 2: Prof. Carl Martin Larsen and Dr. Owen Oakley Honoring Symposia on CFD and VIV.
- (2017) Simulation of floating bodies using a combined immersed boundary with the level set method in REEF3D. MARINE 2017 Computational Methods in Marine Engineering VII.
- (2017) INFLUENCE OF THE UPSTREAM CYLINDER AND WAVE BREAKING POINT ON THE BREAKING WAVE FORCES ON THE DOWNSTREAM CYLINDER. Progress in Applied CFD – CFD2017 Selected papers from 12th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Oil & Gas, Metallurgical and Process Industries.
- (2017) Application Of A 6DOF Algorithm For The Investigation Of Impulse Waves Generated Due To Sub-Aerial Landslides. MARINE 2017 Computational Methods in Marine Engineering VII.
- (2017) Numerical Investigation of Wave Kinematics Inside Berm Breakwaters With Varying Berm Geometry Using REEF3D. ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering - Volume 7A: Ocean Engineering.
- (2017) Large Scale CFD Modelling of Wave Propagation into Mehamn Harbour. MARINE 2017 Computational Methods in Marine Engineering VII.
- (2016) Numerical Simulation of Irregular Wave Forces on a Horizontal Cylinder. ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Volume 2: CFD and VIV.
- (2016) Numerical Modelling of Breaking Wave Interaction With a Group of Four Vertical Slender Cylinders in Square Arrangements. ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Volume 2: CFD and VIV.
- (2016) Study of Water Impact and Entry of a Free Falling Wedge Using CFD Simulations. ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Volume 2: CFD and VIV.
- (2015) Numerical simulation of waves and local scour around vertical cylinders in a triangular arrangement using REEF3D. Proceedings of MekIT'15 Eighth National Conference on Computational Mechanics.
- (2015) CFD simulations for fluid structure interaction due to breaking waves. Proceedings of MekIT'15 Eighth National Conference on Computational Mechanics.
Report/dissertation
- (2018) Investigation of Wave Transformation and Breaking in the Coastal Zone using REEF3D. 2018.
- (2018) Numerical Modelling of Wave Interaction with Floating Structures and Moored Floating Structures. 2018.
- (2018) Calculation of Wave Forces due to Extreme Events in the Coastal Region using REEF3D. 2018.
- (2018) Multiscale Modelling of Wave Propagation on the Norwegian Coast. 2018.
- (2018) Calculation of Wave Forces on Offshore Wind Turbine Jacket Substructures using REEF3D. 2018.
- (2017) Simulation of wave transformation using REEF3D. 2017.
- (2017) Simulation of floating bodies in waves. 2017.
- (2017) Simulation of landslide tsunamis. 2017.
- (2016) Numerical Modelling of Wave Hydrodynamics and Wave Interaction with Porous Structures with REEF3D. 2016.
- (2015) Numerical Modelling of Irregular waves and Irregular wave forces with REEF3D. 2015.
- (2015) CFD based investigation of wave-structure interaction and hydrodynamics of an oscillating water column device. 2015. ISBN 978-82-326-1308-3. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (326).
- (2014) Numerical Modelling of Wave propagation and Wave Forces using REEF3D. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 2014.
- (2012) Calculation of Wave Forces on Structures using REEF3D. 2012.
Others
- (2017) CFD Modeling of Local Scour under Complex Free Surface Flow. EGU 2017 . EGU; Vienna. 2017-04-23 - 2017-04-28.
- (2016) REEF3D : Open Source CFD. REEF3D Workshop, MARINTEK/NTNU . Department of Civil and Transport Engineering, NTNU Trondhei; Trondheim. 2016-10-25 - 2016-10-25.
- (2016) REEF3D : Open Source CFD. REEF3D Workshop, IIT Bombay . Department of Cvil Engineering, IIT Bombay; IIT Bombay. 2016-11-10 - 2016-11-10.