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Article Dans Une Revue Comptes Rendus Mécanique Année : 2003

Fully three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of a plunging breaker

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The scope of this paper is to show the results obtained for simulating three-dimensional breaking waves by solving the Navier–Stokes equations in air and water. The interface tracking is achieved by a Lax–Wendroff TVD scheme (Total Variation Diminishing), which is able to handle interface reconnections. We first present the equations and the numerical methods used in this work. We then proceed to the study of a three-dimensional plunging breaking wave, using initial conditions corresponding to unstable periodic sinusoidal waves of large amplitudes. We compare the results obtained for two simulations, a longshore depth perturbation has been introduced in the solution of the flow equations in order to see the transition from a two-dimensional velocity field to a fully three-dimensional one after plunging. Breaking processes including overturning, splash-up and breaking induced vortex-like motion beneath the surface are presented and discussed.
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hal-00294098 , version 1 (08-07-2008)

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Pierre Lubin, Stéphane Vincent, Jean Paul Caltagirone, Stéphane Abadie. Fully three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of a plunging breaker. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 2003, 331 (7), pp.495-501. ⟨10.1016/S1631-0721(03)00108-6⟩. ⟨hal-00294098⟩
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