On the simulation of flows with violent free surface motion

A volume of fluid (VOF) technique has been developed and coupled with an incompressible Euler/Navier–Stokes solver operating on adaptive, unstructured grids to simulate the interactions of extreme waves and three-dimensional structures. The present implementation follows the classic VOF implementati...

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Autores: Löhner, Rainald, Yang, C., Oñate Ibáñez de Navarra, Eugenio|||0000-0002-0804-7095
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/171683
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/171683
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Strength of materials
Hydrodynamics
Research Report CIMNE
Resistència de materials
Hidrodinàmica
Classificació AMS::74 Mechanics of deformable solids::74S Numerical methods
Classificació AMS::76 Fluid mechanics::76E Hydrodynamic stability
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi numèrica::Mètodes numèrics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica aplicada a les ciències
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Sumario:A volume of fluid (VOF) technique has been developed and coupled with an incompressible Euler/Navier–Stokes solver operating on adaptive, unstructured grids to simulate the interactions of extreme waves and three-dimensional structures. The present implementation follows the classic VOF implementation for the liquid–gas system, considering only the liquid phase. Extrapolation algorithms to obtain velocities and pressure in the gas region near the free surface have been implemented. The VOF technique is validated against the classic dam-break problem, as well as series of 2D sloshing experiments and results from smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) calculations. These and a series of other examples demonstrate that the present CFD method is capable of simulating violent free surface flows with strong nonlinear behavior.