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Viscous flow with free surface motion by least square finite element method

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  • School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China

Received date: 2007-11-08

  Revised date: 2008-06-13

  Online published: 2008-01-01

Abstract

A method for simulation of free surface problems is presented. Based on the viscous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, space discretization of the flow is obtained by the least square finite element method. The time evolution is obtained by the finite difference method. Lagrangian description is used to track the free surface. The results are compared with the experimental dam break results, including water collapse in a 2D rectangular section and in a 3D cylinder section. A good agreement is achieved for the distance of surge front as well as the height of the residual column.

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TANG Bo;LI Jun-feng;WANG Tian-shu . Viscous flow with free surface motion by least square finite element method[J]. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2008 , 29(7) : 943 -952 . DOI: 10.1007/s10483-008-0713-x

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