Application of a Reynolds-averaged Navier-sSokes model to waves in channels

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العنوان: Application of a Reynolds-averaged Navier-sSokes model to waves in channels
المؤلفون: Teixeira, P., Fortes, C. J. E. M.
سنة النشر: 2010
المجموعة: Repositório Cientifico do LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Free surface, Wave propagation, Numerical modeling, Rans model, Finite element method
الوصف: Wave-structure interaction and wave propagation on complex topography are very important in Coastal Engineering. They involve phenomena that combine reflection, shoaling, refraction and diffraction that generate harmonics with complex energy transfers. Over the past decades, many numerical models have been developed to deal with these problems. Due to the large horizontal dimensions of the region under study, the numerical solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations have high computational costs to determine the three-dimensional velocity and pressure fields, besides the free surface position. However, when flow separation, vortex or turbulence phenomena are involved, Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes models provide more accurate results. The objective of this paper is to apply the FLUINCO model (P. Teixeira and C. Fortes, Rev. Int. Mét. Num. Cálc. Dis. Ing., 25(2):313-336 (2009)) to test cases of wave propagation in channels. FLUINCO employs the two step semi-implicit Taylor-Galerkin fractional method to discretize the Navier-Stokes equations in time and space. The code adopts linear tetrahedral elements and the arbitrary Lagrangian- Eulerian formulation to enable the solution of problems concerning the free surface motion. A smoothing procedure is applied to the mesh velocity distribution to minimize element distortion, considering the velocities of each node belonging to the boundary surface. The first application is the wave propagation in a channel of constant depth. The energy spectrum, pressure and velocity fields produced by the numerical model are compared with linear and nonlinear wave theories. The second case deals with the wave propagation over the trapezoidal submerged breakwaters. Two types of breakwater slopes are studied: the first with upstream and downstream slopes of 1:20 and 1:10, respectively; and the second with both 1:2 slopes. The results of the surface elevation and the energy spectrum at various points in the field as well as the pressure and velocity fields for each breakwater geometry are ...
نوع الوثيقة: conference object
اللغة: English
العلاقة: http://repositorio.lnec.pt:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1004434Test; MECOM 2010; Buenos Aires, Argentina
الإتاحة: http://repositorio.lnec.pt:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1004434Test
حقوق: openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.C6780896
قاعدة البيانات: BASE