A modified scaled boundary finite-element method for problems with parallel side-faces. Part II. Application and evaluation

The modified scaled boundary finite-element method (SBFEM), keeping the advantages of the original SBFEM, eliminates the restriction of the scaling center location so that this approach can solve two-dimensional problems with parallel side-faces. In this paper, the modified SBFEM is applied to solutions of two types of problems-wave diffraction by a single and twin surface rectangular obstacles and wave radiation induced by an oscillating mono-hull and twin-hull structures in a finite depth of water. For wave diffraction problems, numerical results agree extremely well with the analytic solution for the single obstacle case and other numerical results of a different approach for the twin obstacle case. For wave radiation problems, the particular solutions to the scaled boundary finite-element equation are presented for cases of heave, sway and roll motions. The added mass and damping coefficients for heave, sway and roll motions of a two-dimensional rectangular container are computed and the numerical results are compared with those from independent analytical solution and numerical solution using the boundary element method (BEM). It is found that the SBFEM method achieves equivalent accuracy to the conventional BEM with only a few degrees of freedom. In the last example, wave radiation by a two-dimensional twin-hull structure is analyzed. Comparisons of the results with those obtained using conventional Green's function method (GFM) demonstrate that the method presented in this paper is free from the irregular frequency problems.