CFD Analysis of Sand and Gravel Filling in Seabed Socket for Wind Turbine Tower

Summary

This work employs CFD to simulate sand and gravel filling within a seabed socket, aiming to assess filling quality in terms of particle distribution uniformity, settled particle surface contour, and particle loss to surrounding water. Findings suggest the cost-effective top-filling method can replace complex and costly retraction approaches, with minimal particle escape. Integration of Virtual Reactor with Rescale expands the simulation capacity, enhancing business propositions, and delivering more valuable insights, while exceptional support from CPFD Software and Rescale improves project workflow, leading to significant time and cost efficiencies.

About the Speaker

Frederik Zafiryadis holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), specializing in industrial fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics simulations of dilute particle-laden flow systems as well as fluidized beds. Since the completion of his PhD in 2022, on the topic of simulation of hydrodynamics of circulating fluidized beds using Virtual Reactor, he has been working as partner in the Danish engineering consultancy, Aerotak.