Undular and broken surges in dam-break flows: a review of wave breaking strategies in a Boussinesq-type framework

O Castro-Orgaz, H Chanson - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - Springer
The water waves resulting from the collapse of a dam are important unsteady free surface
flows in civil and environmental engineering. Considering the basic case of ideal dam break …

A unified breaking onset criterion for surface gravity water waves in arbitrary depth

M Derakhti, JT Kirby, ML Banner… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the validity and robustness of the Barthelemy et al.(2018, https://doi.
org/10.1017/jfm. 2018.93) wave‐breaking onset prediction framework for surface gravity …

Kinematics of nonlinear waves over variable bathymetry. Part I: Numerical modelling, verification and validation

M Benoit, J Zhang, Y Ma - Coastal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Fluid particle kinematics due to wave motion (ie orbital velocities and accelerations) at and
beneath the free surface is involved in many coastal and ocean engineering applications, eg …

A non-hydrostatic numerical model for simulating regular wave breaking and surf-swash zone motions

A Shirkavand, K Farrahi-Moghaddam - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In the present study, a non-hydrostatic two-dimensional vertical model has been developed
to simulate the breaking of regular waves and surf-swash zone motions on a sloping beach …

Unified depth-limited wave breaking detection and dissipation in fully nonlinear potential flow models

S Mohanlal, JC Harris, ML Yates, ST Grilli - Coastal Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
A new method is proposed for simulating the energy dissipation resulting from depth-limited
wave breaking, in combination with a universal breaking onset criterion, in two-dimensional …

An enhanced spectral boundary integral method for modeling highly nonlinear water waves in variable depth

J Wang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new numerical model based on the highly nonlinear potential flow
theory for simulating the propagation of water waves in variable depth. A new set of …

Comparing methods of modeling depth-induced breaking of irregular waves with a fully nonlinear potential flow approach

B Simon, CE Papoutsellis, M Benoit… - Journal of Ocean …, 2019 - Springer
The modeling of wave-breaking dissipation in coastal areas is investigated with a fully
nonlinear and dispersive wave model. The wave propagation model is based on potential …

[HTML][HTML] A Comprehensive Numerical Overview of the Performance of Godunov Solutions Using Roe and Rusanov Schemes Applied to Dam-Break Flow

AJ Elong, L Zhou, B Karney, Z Xue, Y Lu - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
As open channel simulations are of great economic and human significance, many
numerical approaches have been developed, with the Godunov schemes showing particular …

[HTML][HTML] Application of arbitrary lagrangian–eulerian strips with fully nonlinear wave kinematics for force estimation

C Pákozdi, A Kamath, W Wang, H Bihs - Marine Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The initial design of offshore constructions generally uses a combination of model tests and
second-order wave theory to reconstruct the wave kinematics to determine wave forces …

Modeling positive surge propagation in open channels using the Serre-Green-Naghdi equations

TR Biswas, S Dey, D Sen - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2021 - Elsevier
Numerical modeling of upstream propagation of a positive surge wave in an open-channel
flow caused by a sudden rise of downstream water level, either by gate operation or by tidal …