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Three-dimensional flow evolution after a dam break

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2010

A. FERRARI ,
L. FRACCAROLLO ,
M. DUMBSER ,
E. F. TORO  and
A. ARMANINI
A. FERRARI*
Affiliation:
Institute of Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 21, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
L. FRACCAROLLO
Affiliation:
University of Trento, Via Mesiano, 77, I-38100 Trento, Italy
M. DUMBSER
Affiliation:
Institute of Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics, Pfaffenwaldring 21, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany University of Trento, Via Mesiano, 77, I-38100 Trento, Italy
E. F. TORO
Affiliation:
University of Trento, Via Mesiano, 77, I-38100 Trento, Italy
A. ARMANINI
Affiliation:
University of Trento, Via Mesiano, 77, I-38100 Trento, Italy
*
†Email address for correspondence: ferrari.angela@gmail.com
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Abstract

In this paper, the wave propagation on a plane dry bottom after a dam break is analysed. Two mathematical models have been used and compared with each other for simulating such a dam-break scenario. First, the fully three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations for a weakly compressible fluid have been solved using the new smooth particle hydrodynamics formulation, recently proposed by Ferrari et al. (Comput. Fluids, vol. 38, 2009, p. 1203). Second, the two-dimensional shallow water equations (SWEs) are solved using a third-order weighted essentially non-oscillatory finite-volume scheme. The numerical results are critically compared against the laboratory measurements provided by Fraccarollo & Toro (J. Hydraul. Res., vol. 33, 1995, p. 843). The experimental data provide the temporal evolution of the pressure field, the water depth and the vertical velocity profile at 40 gauges, located in the reservoir and in front of the gate. Our analysis reveals the shortcomings of SWEs in the initial stages of the dam-break phenomenon in reproducing many important flow features of the unsteady free-surface flow: the shallow water model predicts a complex wave structure and a wavy evolution of local free-surface elevations in the reservoir that can be clearly identified to be only model artefacts. However, the quasi-incompressible Navier–Stokes model reproduces well the high gradients in the flow field and predicts the cycles of simultaneous rapid decreasing and frozen stages of the free surface in the tank along with the velocity oscillations. Asymptotically, i.e. for ‘large times’, the shallow water model and the weakly compressible Navier–Stokes model agree well with the experimental data, since the classical SWE assumptions are satisfied only at large times.

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Mathematical Foundations: Computational methods Waves/Free-surface Flows: Hydraulics
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 663 , 25 November 2010 , pp. 456 - 477
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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