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Assessment of coupling conditions in water way intersections

Herty, M.; Seaid, M.

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M. Herty



Abstract

We present a numerical assessment of coupling conditions in T-junction for water flow in open canals. The mathematical model is based on the well-established shallow water equations for open channel flows. In the present work, the emphasis is given to the description of coupling conditions at canal-to-canal intersections. The accurate prediction of these coupling conditions is essential in order to achieve good performance and reliable numerical simulations of water canals in networks. There exist several theoretical results for coupling conditions in a reduced geometry. The purpose of our work is to numerically verify these conditions for different water flow regimes. More precisely, we consider a local zooming of the T-junction resulting in a two-dimensional flow problem at the canals intersection. A high-order non-oscillatory method is used for solving the governing two-dimensional equations, and the water flow solutions are space-averaged over the junction areas. The obtained are thereafter, used for verification and comparison with the theoretical results. Verifications are conducted for two types of junctions, namely the 1-to-2 and 2-to-1 situations.

Citation

Herty, M., & Seaid, M. (2013). Assessment of coupling conditions in water way intersections. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 71(11), 1438-1460. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.3719

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 6, 2012
Publication Date Apr 20, 2013
Deposit Date Dec 3, 2013
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
Print ISSN 0271-2091
Electronic ISSN 1097-0363
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 71
Issue 11
Pages 1438-1460
DOI https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.3719
Keywords Water canals, Shallow water equations, T-junction, Coupling conditions, Networks.

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Herty, M. and Seaïd, M. (2013), Assessment of coupling conditions in water way intersections. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 71 (11): 1438-1460, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.3719. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.




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