Abstract
An offshore wind farm will be constructed in the Yellow Sea, west of Korean Peninsula, where there are extensive fishing activity and numerous fishery farms. To study the effect of underwater piling noise on fishing and marine lives, we model the pile driving noise propagation using coupled FE and PE model. The near-field noise is computed by FE model, considering detailed specifications of the pile driving system. We apply 2D axis-symmetric geometry and utilize acoustic structure interaction analysis in the frequency domain. The FE results are used to compose the starting field for PE model, where appropriate range selection is an important factor to cover most of the contributing ray paths. Extrapolation technique to compensate the lack of FE data and the numerical filtering method to smooth the FE result are discussed. In the far-field, the noise propagation is modeled by the split step Pade PE algorithm. The improved PE starting field seems to give refined result than previous coupled model.