Optimal Strategies to Steer and Control Water Waves

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Main Authors: Cominelli, Sebastiano, Sinigaglia, Carlo, Quadrelli, Davide Enrico, Braghin, Francesco
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Published: 2023
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author Cominelli, Sebastiano
Sinigaglia, Carlo
Quadrelli, Davide Enrico
Braghin, Francesco
author_facet Cominelli, Sebastiano
Sinigaglia, Carlo
Quadrelli, Davide Enrico
Braghin, Francesco
contents In this paper, we propose a novel approach for controlling surface water waves and their interaction with floating bodies. We consider a floating target rigid body surrounded by a control region where we design three control strategies of increasing complexity: an active strategy based on controlling the pressure at the air-water interface and two passive strategies where an additional controlled floating device is designed. We model such device both as a membrane and as a thin plate and study the effect of this modelling choice on the performance of the overall controlled system. We frame this problem as an optimal control problem where the underlying state dynamics is represented by a system of coupled partial differential equations describing the interaction between the surface water waves and the floating target body in the frequency domain. An additional intermediate coupling is then added when considering the control floating device. The optimal control problem then aims at minimizing a cost functional which weights the unwanted motions of the floating body. A system of first-order necessary optimality conditions is derived and numerically solved using the finite element method. Numerical simulations then show the efficacy of this method in reducing hydrodynamic loads on floating objects.
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spellingShingle Optimal Strategies to Steer and Control Water Waves
Cominelli, Sebastiano
Sinigaglia, Carlo
Quadrelli, Davide Enrico
Braghin, Francesco
Optimization and Control
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for controlling surface water waves and their interaction with floating bodies. We consider a floating target rigid body surrounded by a control region where we design three control strategies of increasing complexity: an active strategy based on controlling the pressure at the air-water interface and two passive strategies where an additional controlled floating device is designed. We model such device both as a membrane and as a thin plate and study the effect of this modelling choice on the performance of the overall controlled system. We frame this problem as an optimal control problem where the underlying state dynamics is represented by a system of coupled partial differential equations describing the interaction between the surface water waves and the floating target body in the frequency domain. An additional intermediate coupling is then added when considering the control floating device. The optimal control problem then aims at minimizing a cost functional which weights the unwanted motions of the floating body. A system of first-order necessary optimality conditions is derived and numerically solved using the finite element method. Numerical simulations then show the efficacy of this method in reducing hydrodynamic loads on floating objects.
title Optimal Strategies to Steer and Control Water Waves
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00376