In this paper we present a new method for numerically modelling landslide-generated tsunamis in OpenFOAM® by using a new approach based on the Overset mesh technique. This technique, which is based on the use of two (or more) numerical domains, is new in the coastal engineering field and appears to be extremely powerful to model the interaction between a moving body and one or more fluids. Indeed, the accurate resolution around the moving body (i.e. body-fitted approach), guaranteed by this method, offers a great advantage to study the momentum exchange between the body and the water. Furthermore, in order to overcome a drawback of the Overset mesh implementation we modelled the solid boundaries, along which the landslide body moves, as a porous media with a very low permeability. The new approach has been preliminarily, and successfully, validated through the numerical reproduction of past experiments for landslide-generated tsunamis triggered by a solid and impermeable wedge at a sloping coast.

Romano, A., Lara, J., Barajas, G., Di Paolo, B., Bellotti, G., Di Risio, M., et al. (2019). Numerical Modelling of Landslide-Generated Tsunamis with OpenFOAM®: a New Approach. In Coastal Structures 2019 (pp.486-495) [10.18451/978-3-939230-64-9_049].

Numerical Modelling of Landslide-Generated Tsunamis with OpenFOAM®: a New Approach

Alessandro Romano;Giorgio Bellotti;
2019-01-01

Abstract

In this paper we present a new method for numerically modelling landslide-generated tsunamis in OpenFOAM® by using a new approach based on the Overset mesh technique. This technique, which is based on the use of two (or more) numerical domains, is new in the coastal engineering field and appears to be extremely powerful to model the interaction between a moving body and one or more fluids. Indeed, the accurate resolution around the moving body (i.e. body-fitted approach), guaranteed by this method, offers a great advantage to study the momentum exchange between the body and the water. Furthermore, in order to overcome a drawback of the Overset mesh implementation we modelled the solid boundaries, along which the landslide body moves, as a porous media with a very low permeability. The new approach has been preliminarily, and successfully, validated through the numerical reproduction of past experiments for landslide-generated tsunamis triggered by a solid and impermeable wedge at a sloping coast.
2019
978-3-939230-64-9
Romano, A., Lara, J., Barajas, G., Di Paolo, B., Bellotti, G., Di Risio, M., et al. (2019). Numerical Modelling of Landslide-Generated Tsunamis with OpenFOAM®: a New Approach. In Coastal Structures 2019 (pp.486-495) [10.18451/978-3-939230-64-9_049].
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