In this work numerical simulation of the breaking induced by the modulational instability are presented. The study is focused on the energy and momentum exchanged taking place at the air-water interface during the breaking process. Simulations are performed by a two-fluids Navier-Stokes solver combined with the VOF technique, which provides a detailed description of the flow in both phases. Results obtained by two different initial conditions are presented in terms of free surface shapes, energy in air and water, vertical fluxes of horizontal momentum and vorticity.
Energy dissipation and transfer processes during the breaking of modulated wave trains / De Vita, Francesco; Verzicco, Roberto; Iafrati, Alessandro. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONFERENCE SERIES. - ISSN 1742-6588. - 655:1(2015), p. 012037.012037. (Intervento presentato al convegno 33rd Italian Union of Thermo-Fluid Dynamics Heat Transfer Conference, UIT 2015 tenutosi a Engineering Campus of Monteluco di Roio, ita nel 2015) [10.1088/1742-6596/655/1/012037].
Energy dissipation and transfer processes during the breaking of modulated wave trains
Francesco De Vita;Roberto Verzicco;
2015-01-01
Abstract
In this work numerical simulation of the breaking induced by the modulational instability are presented. The study is focused on the energy and momentum exchanged taking place at the air-water interface during the breaking process. Simulations are performed by a two-fluids Navier-Stokes solver combined with the VOF technique, which provides a detailed description of the flow in both phases. Results obtained by two different initial conditions are presented in terms of free surface shapes, energy in air and water, vertical fluxes of horizontal momentum and vorticity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
