Large-wave simulation (LWS) of free-surface flows developing weak spilling breaking waves

DOI10.1006/jcph.2000.6426zbMath0980.76061OpenAlexW1988737829MaRDI QIDQ1976828

Laurie T. Fialkowski, Athanassios A. Dimas

Publication date: 23 November 2000

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.2000.6426

zbMATH Keywords

spectral methodsfree-surface flowsoperator splitting schemespatial filteringChebyshev modes in vertical directionflow spectrumFourier modes in streamwise directionlarge-wave simulationnonlinear surface shear layer instabilityplane gravity wavespilling breakerssubgrid small-wavelength scalessurface wake layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

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