The interaction between surface gravity waves and a vertical wall-mounted rigid cylindrical structure such as a pier or vegetation involves various interdependent physical phenomena including the scouring process and the vertical mixing and horizontal dispersion of materials. As a step toward understanding this interaction, detailed flow fields of sinusoidal oscillatory flow passing a vertical wall-mounted cylinder are numerically investigated for three different wave conditions. With a moderately wide range of the Keulegan–Carpenter number from 6 to 20, numerical simulations are systematically performed, and the data are extensively investigated to determine the dynamic characteristics of the oscillatory flow past a wall-mounted cylinder. In this study, three-dimensional unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes equations are solved using the open-source software, OpenFOAM®. Grid-convergence tests are conducted, and the undisturbed oscillating Stokes boundary-layer determined by numerical simulations is validated by a good agreement with the analytical solution. Flow details in the form of profiles, streamlines, and contours of calculated turbulence fields are presented. Coherent structure dynamics is illustrated using iso-surfaces of the Q-criterion. The synthesis of various flow variables presents a mechanistic view of the bed shear and processes responsible for scour near the cylinder-wall junction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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