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Finite element method for shallow water equation including open boundary condition
Author(s) -
Kodama Toshio,
Kawasaki Tomoyuki,
Kawahara Mutsuto
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in fluids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1097-0363
pISSN - 0271-2091
DOI - 10.1002/fld.1650130802
Subject(s) - spurious relationship , boundary value problem , boundary knot method , boundary (topology) , finite element method , mathematical analysis , singular boundary method , computation , mathematics , boundary element method , algorithm , engineering , structural engineering , statistics
Abstract A method to deal with an open boundary condition in the analysis of water surface waves, the tide, etc. by means of the finite element method is proposed in this paper. The present method has two important features relating to the treatment of the open boundary condition. The first feature is to consider the non‐reflective virtual boundary condition which has been developed in the numerical wave analysis method. The incident wave conditions without spurious reflected waves can be imposed at the open boundary. The second feature is to identify the amplitude of the components of incident waves in terms of observed water elevations in the field of standing waves. This can be done as a parameter identification based on an optimization problem by applying the conjugate gradient method. The applicability of this method to wave propagation problems is verified by several numerical computations.