Locally Adaptive Non-Hydrostatic Shallow Water Extension for Moving Bottom-Generated Waves

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Main Authors: Firdaus, Kemal, Behrens, Jörn
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author Firdaus, Kemal
Behrens, Jörn
author_facet Firdaus, Kemal
Behrens, Jörn
contents We propose a locally adaptive non-hydrostatic model and apply it to wave propagation generated by a moving bottom. This model is based on the non-hydrostatic extension of the shallow water equations (SWE) with a quadratic pressure relation, which is suitable for weakly dispersive waves. The approximation is mathematically equivalent to the Green-Naghdi equations. Applied globally, the extension requires solving an elliptic system of equations in the whole domain at each time step. Therefore, we develop an adaptive model that reduces the application area of the extension and by that the computational time. The elliptic problem is only solved in the area where the dispersive effect might play a crucial role. To define the non-hydrostatic area, we investigate several potential criteria based on the hydrostatic SWE solution. We validate and illustrate how our adaptive model works by first applying it to simulate a simple propagating solitary wave, where exact solutions are known. Following that, we demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our approach in more complicated cases involving moving bottom-generated waves, where measured laboratory data serve as reference solutions. The adaptive model yields similar accuracy as the global application of the non-hydrostatic extension while reducing the computational time by more than 50%.
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spellingShingle Locally Adaptive Non-Hydrostatic Shallow Water Extension for Moving Bottom-Generated Waves
Firdaus, Kemal
Behrens, Jörn
Numerical Analysis
Fluid Dynamics
We propose a locally adaptive non-hydrostatic model and apply it to wave propagation generated by a moving bottom. This model is based on the non-hydrostatic extension of the shallow water equations (SWE) with a quadratic pressure relation, which is suitable for weakly dispersive waves. The approximation is mathematically equivalent to the Green-Naghdi equations. Applied globally, the extension requires solving an elliptic system of equations in the whole domain at each time step. Therefore, we develop an adaptive model that reduces the application area of the extension and by that the computational time. The elliptic problem is only solved in the area where the dispersive effect might play a crucial role. To define the non-hydrostatic area, we investigate several potential criteria based on the hydrostatic SWE solution. We validate and illustrate how our adaptive model works by first applying it to simulate a simple propagating solitary wave, where exact solutions are known. Following that, we demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our approach in more complicated cases involving moving bottom-generated waves, where measured laboratory data serve as reference solutions. The adaptive model yields similar accuracy as the global application of the non-hydrostatic extension while reducing the computational time by more than 50%.
title Locally Adaptive Non-Hydrostatic Shallow Water Extension for Moving Bottom-Generated Waves
topic Numerical Analysis
Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17025