Simulation of wave overtopping of maritime structures in a numerical wave flume

DOI10.1155/2012/246146MaRDI QIDQ1760602zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tiago C. A. Oliveira, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Xavier Gironella

Publication date 15 November 2012

Published in Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/246146

zbMATH Keywords

impermeable maritime structuresnumerical wave flumeparticle finite element methodwave overtopping

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear constitutive equations for materials with memory (74D05) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28)

Review text

Summary: A numerical wave flume based on the particle finite element method (PFEM) is applied to simulate wave overtopping for impermeable maritime structures. An assessment of the performance and robustness of the numerical wave flume is carried out for two different cases comparing numerical results with experimental data. In the first case, a well-defined benchmark test of a simple low-crested structure overtopped by regular nonbreaking waves is presented, tested in the lab, and simulated in the numerical wave flume. In the second case, state-of-the-art physical experiments of a trapezoidal structure placed on a sloping beach overtopped by regular breaking waves are simulated in the numerical wave flume. For both cases, main overtopping events are well detected by the numerical wave flume. However, nonlinear processes controlling the tests proposed, such as nonlinear wave generation, energy losses along the wave propagation track, wave reflection, and overtopping events, are reproduced with more accuracy in the first case. Results indicate that a numerical wave flume based on the PFEM can be applied as an efficient tool to supplement physical models, semiempirical formulations, and other numerical techniques to deal with overtopping of maritime structures.

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