Abstract
A new compatibility condition, applied to the velocity of the free surface particles, enables the simulation of plunging breakers, up to the creation of a thin jet, without numerical smoothing. An improved formulation of a boundary element method for the simulation of surface waves problems is derived and tested through some numerical examples. A numerical wave channel with a wavemaker and an energy absorber is developed and used for a comparison of the non-linear solution with first and second order steady solutions in the frequency domain. Finally, the shoaling of with published experimental results.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 241-258 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Wave Motion |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2006 |
Keywords
- Low-order boundary elements
- Non-linear waves
- Plunging breakers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- General Physics and Astronomy
- Computational Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics