Numerical Model of Wave Run-Up, Overtopping, and Regeneration
Publication: Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 124, Issue 2
Abstract
A numerical model of wave run-up, overtopping, and regeneration is presented. The model (called OTT) is based on the one-dimensional nonlinear shallow water equations on a sloping bed, including the effects of bed shear stress. These equations are solved using a finite-volume technique incorporating a Roe-type Riemann solver. The main advantage of this approach over previously used finite difference solvers is that no special shoreline-tracking algorithm is required, so that noncontiguous flows can easily be simulated. Hence, this model can be used to simulate the transmission of waves over water surface-piercing obstacles. The numerical scheme and boundary conditions are described, and several existing data sets used to test the ability of the model to simulate wave transformation, run-up, and overtopping. Experiments of random wave (unimodal and bimodal) overtopping, presented here for the first time, indicate that the model performs much better than empirical formulas in predicting average overtopping rates, and that it provides good estimates for the number of overtopping events. Experiments of overtopping of a sea wall by a solitary wave are also presented, including measurements of wave regeneration in lee of the dike. The model does a reasonable job of reproducing the water depths on top of the dike, and performs well in simulating the initial height of the regenerated waves.
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Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
Volume 124 • Issue 2 • March 1998
Pages: 73 - 81
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Copyright © 1998 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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