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Absorbing–generating seaward boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical solvers

Incelli, Giorgio; Briganti, Riccardo; Dodd, Nicholas

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Authors

Giorgio Incelli

NICHOLAS DODD NICHOLAS.DODD@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Coastal Dynamics



Abstract

This paper presents a new technique to compute open boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical numerical solvers based on the Non-Linear Shallow Water and the Exner equations. These conditions allow the generation of incident signals and the absorption of reflected ones, taking into account the bed evolution at the boundary. They use the approximations for linear waves in shallow water and are based on the solution of the Riemann Equations.

The proposed technique is implemented in the fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical numerical model of Briganti et al. (2012a).

Firstly, the generation and absorption of single monochromatic waves are studied to quantify the error after the reflected wave exited the domain. In all cases the error is always small, giving evidence of the effectiveness of the new seaward boundary conditions.

Furthermore, the propagation and reflection of a monochromatic wave train over a mobile bed are considered. Both flow evolution and bed change are not affected by spurious oscillations when long sequences of waves are tested. Additionally, a very low mobility bed is considered to simulate a ‘virtually fixed’ bed and new boundary condition results consistently converge to those for the hydrodynamic only case.

Finally, the reflection of a uniform bore over a mobile bed is studied. For this case the Rankine–Hugoniot conditions provide an analytical solution. It is apparent that the adopted linear approximations produce errors in the velocity estimates. Nevertheless, the conditions perform reasonably well even in this demanding non-linear case.

Citation

Incelli, G., Briganti, R., & Dodd, N. (2015). Absorbing–generating seaward boundary conditions for fully-coupled hydro-morphodynamical solvers. Coastal Engineering, 99, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.02.002

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 3, 2015
Online Publication Date Feb 23, 2015
Publication Date May 31, 2015
Deposit Date Aug 4, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Coastal Engineering
Print ISSN 0378-3839
Electronic ISSN 0378-3839
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 99
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2015.02.002
Keywords Fully-coupled morphodynamics, Open boundary, Absorbing-generating boundary conditions, Non-Linear Shallow Water Equations, Exner equation
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/750954
Publisher URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378383915000253?via%3Dihub

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