A COMPREHENSIVE HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF WATER WAVES INTERACTION WITH SUBMERGED BREAKWATERS: NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

The present work describes the numerical investigation with experimental comparisons of water waves interaction with porous structures. The main objective of this work is to assess the ability of the Volume-Averaged Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes- based module within the accurately model and simulate the OpenFOAM numerical toolbox to most relevant hydrodynamic processes involved in the interaction between waves and low-crested breakwaters. The numerical approach is further validated against measurements obtained tests conducted for a wide range of wave from the small-scale laboratory conditions at LOMC’s wave channel (University of Le Havre, France).