Author(s): Eric Didier; Diogo Neves; Paulo Teixeira; Joao Dias; Maria G. Neves
Linked Author(s): Maria Da Graça Neves
Keywords: Overtopping; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics; Physical modeling; Porous breakwater
Abstract: Numerical modeling of an entire physical wave flume with a breakwater at scale 1: 30 was performed using a coupling technique between FLUINCO wave propagation and SPHy CE wave-structure interaction codes. The rock blocks of the breakwater are directly simulated with the SPHy CE code using similar rectangular blocks. Numerical results of free surface elevation before the breakwater, over and inside the rock armor layer and overtopping discharge over the structure, for wave period 12s and wave heights 2. 5 and 3. 3m (prototype values), are in good accordance with experimental data.
Year: 2014