SIMULTANEOUS SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE AIR AND WATER FLOWS MODELLING IN THE SWASH ZONE

[摘要] This study presents the results of the numerical simulation of a bore-driven swash flow over a permeable coarse- grained beach, carried out using the THETIS code. This code, based on a VOF-RANS approach, was previously used to simulate the swash flow over an impermeable beach (Desombre et al. 2013). For the present study, the code is extended to account for infiltration and exfiltration into a permeable immobile beach using the Volume-Averaged momentum equation that solves simultaneously the surface and subsurface flows. The results are compared with a laboratory data set from an experiment performed in the swash facility of the University of Aberdeen (Steenhauer et al. 2011). Comparisons between measurements and model results show the ability of the model to simulate the main features of subsurface flow during an entire swash cycle.

[学科分类] 建筑学

[关键词] swash zone;porous media;groundwater;subsurface;numerical modelling;1-fluid;VOF