src/test/bore.c

Undular bores for the Green-Naghdi equations

This test case was proposed by Le Métayer et al, 2010 (section 6.2). This is a dam break problem described by the (dispersive) Green-Naghdi equations (rather than the non-dispersive Saint-Venant equations).

#include "grid/bitree.h"
#include "green-naghdi.h"

The domain is 600 metres long, centered on the origin. The acceleration of gravity is set to 10 m/s². The problem is solved in one dimension with 2048 grid points.

int main()
{
  X0 = -300.;
  L0 = 600.;
  G = 10.;
  N = 2048;
  run();
}

The initial conditions are zero velocity and a jump in fluid depth at the origin (i.e. dam break conditions).

event init (i = 0)
{
  foreach() {
    h[] = x < 0. ? 1.8 : 1.;
    u.x[] = 0.;
  }
}

event output (t = 48) {
  foreach()
    fprintf (stdout, "%g %g %g\n", x, h[], u.x[]);
  fprintf (stdout, "\n");
}

At t = 48 seconds, the depth and velocity profiles are given below. They are compared with the numerical solution of the same problem obtained with the Saint-Venant solver (bore1.c).

The solution consists of localized undular bores superposed onto the Saint-Venant solution. This demonstrates the robustness of the numerical scheme.

set xlabel 'x'
set ylabel 'z'
set key top left
plot '../bore1/out' w l t 'Saint-Venant', 'out' w l t 'Green-Naghdi'

Fluid depth profile at t = 48 seconds. (script)

set xlabel 'x'
set ylabel 'u'
plot '../bore1/out' u 1:3 w l t 'Saint-Venant', 'out' u 1:3 w l t 'Green-Naghdi'

Velocity profile at t = 48 seconds. (script)